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(satellite adjective) having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply" |
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(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" |
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(adverb) for an extended distance |
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(verb) have a yen for |
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Synonyms: ache, languish, pine, yearn, yen |
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Related Words: die, miss |
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(adjective) 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" |
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Antonyms: short |
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(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" |
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Antonyms: short |
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(adjective) (phonetics) 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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Antonyms: short |
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(adjective) (finance) holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold" |
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Antonyms: short |
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(satellite adjective) (of memory) having greater than average range; "a long memory especially for insults"; "a tenacious memory" |
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Synonyms: tenacious |
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(satellite adjective) involving substantial risk; "long odds" |
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(satellite adjective) (prosody) used of syllables that are unaccented or of relatively long duration |
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(satellite adjective) of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows" |
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(noun) a comparatively long time; "this won't take long"; "they haven't been gone long" |
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Related Words: age, long time, years |
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(verb) desire strongly or persistently |
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Synonyms: hanker, yearn |
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Related Words: desire, want |
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(satellite adjective) planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues" |
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Synonyms: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, longsighted |
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