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"

Antonym:
  • short

Nearest:
  • elongate; elongated
  • elongated; extended; lengthened; prolonged
  • extendible; extendable
  • far
  • lank
  • long-handled; pole-handled
  • long-range
  • long-snouted
  • long-staple
  • long-wool; long-wooled
  • oblong
  • polysyllabic; sesquipedalian
  • stretch


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