long /lɒŋ/
1. desire strongly or persistently
1. 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"
synset: long
2. 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"
synset: long
3. of relatively great height; "a race of long gaunt men"- Sherwood Anderson; "looked out the long French windows"
synset: long
4. good at remembering; "a retentive mind"; "tenacious memory"
synset: retentive, recollective, long, tenacious
antonym: unretentive, forgetful, short
5. holding securities or commodities in expectation of a rise in prices; "is long on coffee"; "a long position in gold"
synset: long
6. (of speech sounds or syllables) of relatively long duration; "the English vowel sounds in `bate', `beat', `bite', `boat', `boot' are long"
synset: long
7. involving substantial risk; "long odds"
synset: long
8. planning prudently for the future; "large goals that required farsighted policies"; "took a long view of the geopolitical issues"
synset: farseeing, farsighted, foresighted, foresightful, prospicient, long, longsighted
9. having or being more than normal or necessary; "long on brains"; "in long supply"
synset: long
1. 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"
synset: long
synset: long
Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.
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