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long
Overview of verb long
The verb long has 1 sense (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (6) hanker, long, yearn -- (desire strongly or persistently)
Overview of adj long
The adj long has 9 senses (first 3 from tagged texts)
1. (118) 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")
2. (107) long -- (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")
3. (2) long -- (of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows")
4. retentive, recollective, long, tenacious -- (good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory")
5. long -- (holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold")
6. long -- ((of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration; " the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long")
7. long -- (involving substantial risk; "long odds")
8. farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted -- (planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues")
9. long -- (having or being more than normal or necessary:"long on brains"; "in long supply")
Overview of adv long
The adv long has 2 senses (first 1 from tagged texts)
1. (37) long -- (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")
2. long -- (for an extended distance)
Grep of noun long
furlong
heilong
livelong
long-beard
long-billed marsh wren
long-chain molecule
long-clawed prawn
long-distance call
long-distance runner
long-eared bat
long-eared owl
long-fin tunny
long-handled spade
long-head coneflower
long-horned beetle
long-horned grasshopper
long-legs
long-neck clam
long-spurred violet
long-staple cotton
long-sufferance
long-suffering
long-tailed porcupine
long-tailed weasel
long-term memory
long-windedness
long beach
long beech fern
long bone
long chain
long distance
long division
long dozen
long fly
long haul
long horse
long hundred
long hundredweight
long iron
long island
long island sound
long johns
long jump
long measure
long moss
long pants
long pepper
long pillow
long plane
long run
long saphenous vein
long shot
long sleeve
long suit
long time
long tom
long ton
long trousers
long underwear
long wave
long whist
longan
longanberry
longanimity
longar palm
longbeard
longboat
longbow
longbowman
longcase clock
longer
longevity
longfellow
longfin mako
longhand
longheaded thimbleweed
longhorn
longicorn
longicorn beetle
longing
longitude
longleaf pine
longlegs
longness
longroot
longshoreman
longshot
longsightedness
longtail weasel
longueur
longways
longways dance
longwool
longyi
oblong
oolong
ship-towed long-range acoustic detection system
singalong
so long
tagalong
tai long
yard-long bean
Antonyms of verb long
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb long
1 sense of long
Sense 1
hanker, long, yearn
=> desire, want
Troponyms (hyponyms) of verb long
1 sense of long
Sense 1
hanker, long, yearn
=> ache, yearn, yen, pine, languish
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb long
1 sense of long
Sense 1
hanker, long, yearn
=> desire, want
'Cause To' of verb long
Derived Forms of verb long
1 sense of long
Sense 1
hanker, long, yearn
RELATED TO>(noun) longer#1
=> longer, thirster, yearner
RELATED TO>(noun) longing#1
=> longing, yearning, hungriness
Domain of verb long
Domain Terms of verb long
Familiarity of verb long
long used as a verb is very rare (polysemy count =1)
Sample Sentences of verb long
1 sense of long
Sense 1
hanker, long, yearn
EX: They long to move
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of verb long
1 sense of long
Sense 1
hanker, long, yearn
> desire, want
=> crave, hunger, thirst, starve, lust
=> fancy, go for, take to
=> miss
=> hope
=> wish
=> wish, wish well
=> wish, care, like
=> itch, spoil
=> like
=> ambition
=> feel like
=> envy, begrudge
=> lust after, lech after
=> hanker, long, yearn
=> seek
Synonyms (Grouped by Similarity of Meaning) of verb long
Sense 1
hanker, long, yearn
=> desire, want
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Grep of verb long
belong
belt along
bucket along
cannonball along
come along
get along
go a long way
go along
jolly along
long
pass along
pelt along
play along
prolong
pull along
rub along
run along
rush along
scrape along
scratch along
shove along
sing along
stretch along
string along
tag along
travel along
whizz along
zoom along
Antonyms of adj long
9 senses of long
Sense 1
long (vs. short)
short (vs. long)
=> abbreviated, shortened, truncated
=> brief, little
=> clipped
=> fleeting, fugitive, momentaneous, momentary
=> short and sweet(predicate)
=> short-dated
=> short-range
=> short-run, short-term
Sense 2
long (vs. short)
short (vs. long)
=> abbreviated, brief
=> close
=> curtal
=> sawed-off, sawn-off, shortened
=> shortish
=> short-range
=> short-snouted
=> snub
=> stubby
=> telescoped, shortened
=> truncate, truncated
Sense 3
long
INDIRECT (VIA tall) -> short
Sense 4
retentive (vs. unretentive), recollective, long, tenacious
Sense 5
long (vs. short)
short (vs. long)
Sense 6
long (vs. short)
short (vs. long)
Sense 7
long
INDIRECT (VIA unsound) -> sound
Sense 8
farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted
INDIRECT (VIA provident) -> improvident
Sense 9
long
INDIRECT (VIA abundant) -> scarce
Similarity of adj long
9 senses of long
Sense 1
long (vs. short)
=> agelong
=> bimestrial
=> daylong
=> drawn-out, extended, lengthy, prolonged, protracted
=> durable, lasting, long-lasting, long-lived
=> eight-day
=> endless, eternal, interminable
=> hourlong
=> lifelong, womb-to-tomb
=> long-acting
=> long-dated
=> longish
=> long-life
=> longitudinal
=> long-range
=> long-run, long-term, semipermanent
=> longstanding
=> monthlong
=> nightlong, all-night, overnight
=> perennial
=> time-consuming
=> weeklong, seven-day
=> yearlong
Sense 2
long (vs. short)
=> elongate, elongated
=> elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged
=> extendible, extendable
=> far
=> lank
=> long-handled, pole-handled
=> long-range
=> long-snouted
=> long-staple
=> long-wool, long-wooled
=> oblong
=> polysyllabic, sesquipedalian
=> stretch(prenominal)
Sense 3
long
=> tall (vs. short)
Sense 4
retentive (vs. unretentive), recollective, long, tenacious
Also See> mindful#1, aware#2
Sense 5
long (vs. short)
Sense 6
long (vs. short)
Sense 7
long
=> unsound (vs. sound)
Sense 8
farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted
=> provident (vs. improvident)
Sense 9
long
=> abundant (vs. scarce)
Pertainyms of adj long
Attributes of adj long
2 of 9 senses of long
Sense 1
long (vs. short)
=> duration, length
Sense 2
long (vs. short)
=> length
Domain of adj long
2 of 9 senses of long
Sense 5
long (vs. short)
TOPIC>(noun) finance#2
Sense 6
long (vs. short)
TOPIC>(noun) phonetics#1
Domain Terms of adj long
Familiarity of adj long
long used as an adjective is familiar (polysemy count =9)
Grep of adj long
agelong
daylong
headlong
hourlong
lifelong
livelong
long
long-acting
long-ago
long-armed
long-bodied
long-branched
long-chain
long-dated
long-distance
long-faced
long-familiar
long-haired
long-handled
long-headed
long-jawed
long-lasting
long-legged
long-life
long-lived
long-play
long-playing
long-range
long-run
long-shanked
long-snouted
long-spurred
long-stalked
long-standing
long-staple
long-suffering
long-term
long-wearing
long-winded
long-wool
long-wooled
longanimous
longed-for
longhand
longish
longitudinal
longsighted
longstanding
longtime
monthlong
nightlong
oblong
sidelong
weeklong
yearlong
Antonyms of adv long
Synonyms of adv long
2 senses of long
Sense 1
long
Sense 2
long
Pertainyms of adv long
Domain of adv long
Domain Terms of adv long
Familiarity of adv long
long used as an adverb is rare (polysemy count =2)
Grep of adv long
all along
all day long
along
at long last
before long
by a long shot
daylong
headlong
in the long run
long
long-windedly
long ago
long since
longer
longest
longingly
longitudinally
longways
longwise
not by a long sight
not long
right along
sidelong
since a long time ago
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