Antonyms for long

Antonyms for (adj) long

Main entry: long

Definition: primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified

Usage: a long road; a long distance; contained many long words; ten miles long

Antonyms: short

Definition: (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length


Antonyms: shrink, contract

Definition: become smaller or draw together


Antonyms: near, nigh, close

Definition: not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances


Antonyms: unextended

Definition: not extended or stretched out


Main entry: long

Definition: primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified

Usage: a long life; a long boring speech; a long time; a long friendship; a long game; long ago; an hour long

Antonyms: short

Definition: primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration


Antonyms: annual, one-year

Definition: completing its life cycle within a year


Antonyms: two-year, biennial

Definition: having a life cycle lasting two seasons


Antonyms: acute

Definition: having or experiencing a rapid onset and short but severe course


Antonyms: unextended

Definition: not extended or stretched out


Main entry: long

Definition: (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration

Usage: the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long

Antonyms: short

Definition: of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration


Main entry: long

Definition: holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices

Usage: is long on coffee; a long position in gold

Antonyms: short

Definition: not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices


Main entry: tenacious, recollective, retentive, long

Definition: good at remembering

Usage: a retentive mind; tenacious memory

Antonyms: unretentive, forgetful, short

Definition: (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range


Main entry: long

Definition: of relatively great height

Usage: a race of long gaunt men- Sherwood Anderson; looked out the long French windows

Antonyms: short, little

Definition: low in stature; not tall


Main entry: long

Definition: having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"

Usage: in long supply

Antonyms: scarce

Definition: deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand


Main entry: long

Definition: involving substantial risk

Usage: long odds

Antonyms: sound

Definition: financially secure and safe


Antonyms: sound

Definition: in good condition; free from defect or damage or decay


Main entry: prospicient, long, longsighted, farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful

Definition: planning prudently for the future

Usage: large goals that required farsighted policies; took a long view of the geopolitical issues

Antonyms: improvident

Definition: not provident; not providing for the future


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