long

Adjective

• having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"
  • in long supply
    

• planning prudently for the future
  • large goals that required farsighted policies
    
  • took a long view of the geopolitical issues
    

• involving substantial risk
  • long odds
    

• (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration
  • the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long
    

• holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices
  • is long on coffee
    
  • a long position in gold
    

• good at remembering
  • a retentive mind
    
  • tenacious memory
    

• of relatively great height
  • a race of long gaunt men- Sherwood Anderson
    
  • looked out the long French windows
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

Adverb

• for an extended distance

• 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
    

Verb

• desire strongly or persistently

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  farseeing , farsighted , foresighted , foresightful , prospicient , longsighted , retentive , recollective , tenacious , hanker , yearn
• Antonyms: 
  short , unretentive , forgetful