Definition: desire strongly or persistently
Definition: feel or have a desire for; want strongly
Usage: I want to go home now; I want my own room
Synonyms: long
Definition: having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"
Usage: in long supply
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: elongate, elongated
Definition: having notably more length than width; being long and slender
Usage: an elongate tail tapering to a point; the old man's gaunt and elongated frame
Similar words: elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged
Definition: drawn out or made longer spatially
Usage: Picasso's elongated Don Quixote; lengthened skirts are fashionable this year; the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes; a prolonged black line across the page
Similar words: extendable, extendible
Definition: capable of being lengthened
Similar words: far
Definition: being of a considerable distance or length
Usage: a far trek
Similar words: lank
Definition: long and thin and often limp
Usage: grown lank with fasting; lank mousy hair
Similar words: long-handled, pole-handled
Definition: having a long handle
Similar words: long-range
Definition: suitable for or reaching long distances
Usage: long-range nuclear capability
Similar words: long-snouted
Definition: having a snout that is longer than average
Similar words: long-staple
Definition: having relatively long fibers
Usage: long-staple cotton
Similar words: long-wool, long-wooled
Definition: (of sheep) having relatively long wool
Similar words: oblong
Definition: deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction
Similar words: polysyllabic, sesquipedalian
Definition: (of words) long and ponderous; having many syllables
Usage: sesquipedalian technical terms
Similar words: stretch
Definition: having an elongated seating area
Usage: a stretch limousine
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: agelong
Definition: lasting through all time
Usage: agelong struggle for freedom
Similar words: bimestrial
Definition: two months long; lasting two months
Similar words: continuing, chronic
Definition: of long duration
Usage: chronic money problems
Similar words: daylong
Definition: lasting through an entire day
Similar words: drawn-out, extended, lengthy, protracted, prolonged
Definition: relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
Usage: a drawn-out argument; an extended discussion; a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law; a prolonged and bitter struggle; protracted negotiations
Similar words: durable, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived
Definition: existing for a long time
Usage: hopes for a durable peace; a long-lasting friendship
Similar words: eight-day
Definition: lasting for eight days
Similar words: interminable, eternal, endless
Definition: tiresomely long; seemingly without end
Usage: endless debates; an endless conversation; the wait seemed eternal; eternal quarreling; an interminable sermon
Similar words: hourlong
Definition: lasting for an hour
Usage: an hourlong examination
Similar words: womb-to-tomb, lifelong
Definition: continuing through life
Usage: a lifelong friend; from lifelong habit; his lifelong study of Greek art
Similar words: long-acting
Definition: active over a long period of time
Similar words: long-dated
Definition: of a gilt-edged security; having more than 15 years to run before redemption
Similar words: longish
Definition: somewhat long
Similar words: long-life
Definition: (of perishable goods) treated to stay fresh longer than usual
Usage: long-life milk
Similar words: longitudinal
Definition: over an extended time
Usage: a longitudinal study of twins
Similar words: long-range
Definition: involving an extended span of time
Usage: long-range goals
Similar words: long-run, long-term, semipermanent
Definition: relating to or extending over a relatively long time
Usage: the long-run significance of the elections; the long-term reconstruction of countries damaged by the war; a long-term investment
Similar words: longstanding
Definition: having existed for a long time
Usage: a longstanding friendship; the longstanding conflict
Similar words: monthlong
Definition: last through a month
Usage: a monthlong stay in the hospital
Similar words: nightlong, overnight, all-night
Definition: lasting, open, or operating through the whole night
Usage: a nightlong vigil; an all-night drugstore; an overnight trip
Similar words: perennial
Definition: lasting an indefinitely long time; suggesting self-renewal
Usage: perennial happiness
Similar words: time-consuming
Definition: of a task that takes time and patience
Similar words: seven-day, weeklong
Definition: lasting through a week
Usage: her weeklong vacation
Similar words: yearlong
Definition: lasting through a year
Usage: attending yearlong courses
Synonyms: 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
Similar words: provident
Definition: providing carefully for the future
Usage: wild squirrels are provident; a provident father plans for his children's education
Synonyms: long
Definition: involving substantial risk
Usage: long odds
Synonyms: long
Definition: of relatively great height
Usage: a race of long gaunt men- Sherwood Anderson; looked out the long French windows
Similar words: tall
Definition: great in vertical dimension; high in stature
Usage: tall people; tall buildings; tall trees; tall ships