long1. Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.

Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995.

long¹

NOUN:	A long time: eon, eternity, year (used in plural). Informal : age (used in plural), blue moon. Idioms: forever and a day, forever and ever, month of Sundays. See TIME.
ADJECTIVE:	1. Having a rather great upward projection: high, tall. See HIGH. 2. Extending tediously beyond a standard duration: dragging, drawn-out, lengthy, long-drawn-out, overlong, prolonged, protracted. See EXCITE, LONG. 3. Having great physical length: elongate, elongated, extended, lengthy, prolonged. See LONG. 4. Having many syllables: polysyllabic, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian. See LONG.


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