long

Meanings

Verb

• desire strongly or persistently

Adjective

• primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
  • "a long life"
  • "a long boring speech"
  • "a long time"
  • "a long friendship"
  • "a long game"
  • "long ago"
  • "an hour long"
• primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
  • "a long road"
  • "a long distance"
  • "contained many long words"
  • "ten miles long"
• good at remembering
• holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
  • "is long on coffee"
  • "a long position in gold"
• (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
  • "the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long"

Adjective Satellite

• of relatively great height; - Sherwood Anderson
  • "a race of long gaunt men"
  • "looked out the long French windows"
• involving substantial risk
  • "long odds"
• planning prudently for the future
  • "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
• having or being more than normal or necessary:
  • "long on brains"
  • "in long supply"

Adverb

• for an extended time or at a distant time
  • "a promotion long overdue"
  • "something long hoped for"
  • "his name has long been forgotten"
  • "talked all night long"
  • "how long will you be gone?"
  • "arrived long before he was expected"
  • "it is long after your bedtime"
• for an extended distance

Synonyms

farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, hanker, longsighted, prospicient, recollective, retentive, tenacious, yearn

Antonyms

short, unretentive

Anagrams of long