long
desire strongly or persistently (Freq. 6)
• Syn:
hanker, yearn
• Derivationally related forms:
yearner (for: yearn), yearning (for: yearn), longer, longing, hankering (for: hanker)
• Hypernyms:
desire, want
• Hyponyms:
ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
- They long to move
1. primarily temporal sense;
being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified (Freq. 118)
- a long life
- a long boring speech
- a long time
- a long friendship
- a long game
- long ago
- an hour long
• Ant:
short
• Similar to:
agelong, bimestrial, chronic, continuing, daylong,
drawn-out, extended, lengthy, prolonged, protracted, durable,
lasting, long-lasting, long-lived, eight-day, 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, all-night, overnight,
perennial, time-consuming, weeklong, seven-day, yearlong
• Derivationally related forms:
longness
• Attrubites:
duration, length
2. primarily spatial sense;
of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified (Freq. 105)
- a long road
- a long distance
- contained many long words
- ten miles long
• Ant:
short
• Similar to:
elongate, 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
• Derivationally related forms:
longness
• Attrubites:
length
3. of relatively great height (Freq. 2)
- "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson
- looked out the long French windows
• Similar to:
tall
• Derivationally related forms:
longness
4. good at remembering
- a retentive mind
- tenacious memory
• Syn:
retentive, recollective, tenacious
• Ant:
unretentive (for: retentive)
• See Also:
mindful, aware
• Derivationally related forms:
tenaciousness (for: tenacious), recollect (for: recollective), retentiveness (for: retentive), retentivity (for: retentive), retain (for: retentive)
5. holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
- is long on coffee
- a long position in gold
• Ant:
short
• Topics:
finance
6. (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
- the English vowel sounds in 'bate', 'beat', 'bite', 'boat', 'boot' are long
• Ant:
short
• Topics:
phonetics
7. involving substantial risk
- long odds
• Similar to:
unsound
8. planning prudently for the future
- large goals that required farsighted policies
- took a long view of the geopolitical issues
• Syn:
farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, longsighted
• Similar to:
provident
• Derivationally related forms:
prospicience (for: prospicient), foresightfulness (for: foresightful), foresightedness (for: foresighted), farsightedness (for: farsighted)
9. having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"
- in long supply
• Similar to:
abundant
1. for an extended time or at a distant time (Freq. 36)
- 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
2. for an extended distance
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