“long”

Definitions

• adjective

  primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

  Synonyms: ache, aeon, age, ages, aim, aspire, big, bull, century, colossal, covet, crave

  Antonyms: short

  • Example:“a long life”
  • Example:“a long boring speech”

• adjective

  primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified

  Antonyms: short

  • Example:“a long road”
  • Example:“a long distance”

• adjective

  of relatively great height

  • Example:“a race of long gaunt men”
  • Example:“… looked out the long French windows”

• adjective

  good at remembering

  Synonyms: retentive, recollective, tenacious

  • Example:“a retentive mind”
  • Example:“tenacious memory”

• adjective

  holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices

  Antonyms: short

  • Example:“… is long on coffee”
  • Example:“a long position in gold”

• adjective

  (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration

  Antonyms: short

  • Example:“The English vowel sounds in ‘bate’, ‘beat’, ‘bite’, ‘boat’, ‘boot’ are long.”