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Sounds | lao'ng |
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Rhymes | along, Armstrong, belong, and 27 more rhymes in aong at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | Primarily temporal sense. Being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified. |
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Examples | "a long life"; "a long boring speech"; "a long time"; "a long friendship"; "a long game"; "long ago"; "an hour long" |
Attribute of | duration, length |
Similar | agelong; bimestrial; daylong; drawn-out, extended, lengthy, prolonged, protracted; durable, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived; endless, eternal, interminable; hourlong; lifelong, womb-to-tomb; long-acting; long-dated; longish; long-life; longitudinal; long-range; long-run, long-term, semipermanent; longstanding; monthlong; nightlong, overnight; perennial; time-consuming; weeklong; yearlong |
Contrary | short |
Adverbs | longer; longest |
Meaning | Primarily spatial sense. Of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified. |
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Examples | "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long" |
Attribute of | length |
Similar | elongate, elongated; elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged; extendible, extendable; far; in length; lank; long-distance; longer, longest; long-handled; long-range; long-snouted; long-staple; long-wool, long-wooled; oblong; polysyllabic, sesquipedalian; stretch |
Contrary | short |
Meaning | Of relatively great height. |
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Examples | "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows" |
Similar to | tall |
Meaning | Holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices. |
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Examples | "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold" |
Category | finance |
Contrary | short |
Meaning | Of speech sounds (especially vowels) of relatively long duration (as e.g. the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot'). |
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Category | phonetics |
Contrary | short |
Meaning | Used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration. |
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Category | prosody, metrics |
Similar to | stressed |
Meaning | Involving substantial risk. |
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Examples | "long odds" |
Similar to | unsound |
Meaning | (of memory) having greater than average range. |
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Examples | "a long memory especially for insults" |
Synonyms | tenacious |
Similar to | retentive |
Meaning | Planning prudently for the future. |
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Examples | "took a long view of the geopolitical issues" |
Synonyms | farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, longsighted |
Similar to | provident |
Meaning | Having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains". |
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Examples | "in long supply" |
Similar to | abundant |
Meaning | A comparatively long time. |
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Examples | "this won't take long"; "they haven't been gone long" |
Broader | long time, age, years |
Meaning | For an extended time or at a distant time. |
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Examples | "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" |
Meaning | For an extended distance. |
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Meaning | Desire strongly or persistently. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s PP |
Model | They long to move |
Synonyms | hanker, yearn |
Narrower | ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish |
Broader | desire, want |
Nouns | longer; longing |