nnoun.persona person with a strong desire for somethingSynset:thirster yearner
Examples:- a longer for money
- a thirster after blood
- a yearner for knowledge
Derivationally Related Form:longyearn
Hypernyms:individual mortal person somebody someone soul
Inherited Hypernyms:longerpersoncausal agentphysical entityentity
Inherited Hypernyms:longerpersonorganismliving thingwholeobjectphysical entityentity
adjadj.allprimarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specifiedAttributes:duration length
Examples:- a long life
- a long boring speech
- a long time
- a long friendship
- a long game
- long ago
- an hour long
Antonyms:short
Derivationally Related Form:longness
Inherited Hypernyms:long
Similar to:agelong bimestrial chronic continuing 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 long-life long-range long-run long-term semipermanent longish longitudinal long-standing longstanding monthlong all-night nightlong overnight perennial time-consuming seven-day weeklong yearlong
adjadj.allprimarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specifiedAttributes:length
Examples:- a long road
- a long distance
- contained many long words
- ten miles long
Antonyms:short
Derivationally Related Form:longness
Inherited Hypernyms:long
Similar to:elongate elongated elongated extended lengthened prolonged extendable extendible far lank long-handled pole-handled long-range long-snouted long-staple long-wool long-wooled oblong polysyllabic sesquipedalian stretch
adj satadj.allof relatively great heightExamples:- a race of long gaunt men - Sherwood Anderson
- looked out the long French windows
Antonyms:short
Derivationally Related Form:longness
Inherited Hypernyms:long
Similar to:tall
adjadj.allgood at rememberingSynset:long recollective retentive tenacious
Examples:- a retentive mind
- tenacious memory
Antonyms:unretentive
Derivationally Related Form:recollecttenaciousnessretainretentivityretentiveness
Inherited Hypernyms:retentive
See also:aware mindful
adj satadj.allplanning prudently for the futureSynset:farseeing farsighted foresighted foresightful long longsighted prospicient
Examples:- large goals that required farsighted policies
- took a long view of the geopolitical issues
Antonyms:improvident
Derivationally Related Form:prospicienceforesightednessfarsightednessforesightfulness
Inherited Hypernyms:farseeing
Similar to:provident
advadv.allfor more timePertainyms:long
Inherited Hypernyms:longer