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Main Entry:	long [lawng, long] Show IPA/lɔŋ, lɒŋ/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	extended in space or time
Synonyms:	continued, deep, distant, drawn out, elongate, elongated, enduring, enlarged, expanded, extensive, far-off, far-reaching, faraway, gangling, great, high, lanky, lasting, lengthened, lengthy, lingering, lofty, longish, outstretched, prolonged, protracted, rangy, remote, running, spread out, spun out, stretch, stretched, stretching, stringy, sustained, tall, towering
Antonyms:	abbreviated, abridged, short

Main Entry:	long
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	desire, crave
Synonyms:	ache, aim, aspire, covet, dream of, hanker, have a yen for, hunger, itch, lust, miss, pine, sigh, spoil for, suspire, thirst, want, wish, yearn
Antonyms:	despise, dislike, hate

Main Entry:	aspire
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	aim, hope
Synonyms:	be ambitious, be eager, crave, desire, dream, hanker, long, pursue, seek, strive, struggle, try, want, wish, yearn

Example Sentences

Our approach to holiday leftovers could help us eat better all year long.

Also, silk long johns are a good bet if it's really cold.

Crankishness aside, technocracy and autocracy have long been natural bedfellows.

Our approach to holiday leftovers could help us eat better all year long.

Also, silk long johns are a good bet if it's really cold.

Crankishness aside, technocracy and autocracy have long been natural bedfellows.

Giant marine reptiles called plesiosaurs used their long necks to hunt for food on the seabed, newly found fossils suggest.

Genes control to a great extent how long an organism can live.

Not long ago, publishing and other media businesses mostly aimed to sell blockbusters.

Indeterminate tomatoes flower and fruit over a long season, and plants keep growing larger until cool weather shuts them down.

Most people think there is no chance for a long distance relationship to work.

In the last few years, the list of corruption convictions is depressingly long.

Ultrasound has, of course, long been used in medical imaging.

Giraffes are the world's tallest mammals, thanks to their towering legs and long necks.

Most stories recounting famed fossil discoveries include tales of long hours spent painstakingly searching through dirt and dust.

America's first permanent colonists have long been considered lazy and incompetent.

Frequent heavy waterings will help leach out salts and carry them to lower soil levels-as long as drainage is good.

Track coaches have long claimed that the best sprinters are born, not made.

The ageless search for the secrets to long life has inspired recent studies that overturn myths and offer promising clues.

The only way for them to have gotten back together after that long hiatus was direct physical contact.

Prominent structures such as long necks could well have been used in mating displays of dinosaurs.

The last block on a long wall, called the closure block, is a bit tricky to install.

In order for you to live long and prosper, your cells may need to die while they're still healthy.

Actinium's long half-life, he adds, should make it effective against large tumors and easy to distribute widely.

The man picked up a piece of reddish brown stone about three inches long that he-or she, no one knows-had polished.

Low, clumping or spreading plants grown for colorful daisies over long bloom season.

In older red wines the tannin reactions have proceeded long enough to reduce astringency.

They want to find artifacts that tell stories about what happened on that land a long time ago, and they're striking pay dirt.

Long used in the perfume and soap industries, lavandins are vigorous, fragrant plants.

Scholars have long recognized the emergence of agriculture as a turning point in the history of humankind.

Idé bangs on the windshield with a long stick to direct the driver: left, right, right again.

Tree peonies usually start out as grafts on herbaceous peony roots, but in the long run they do best on their own roots.

Easy-care succulents have long been considered the boring last resort of brown-thumb gardeners.

Because of the long list of homemade pies, all available daily.

Some persist in the soil for long periods, injuring later plantings.

But unlike the other slugs, they mate while suspended from a long thread of slime.

They may need to bend somewhat and accept some restrictions, as long as the public's right to continual access is preserved.

The idea that a person's genes or hormones could lead to criminal behavior has long been out of favor and provokes.

The dinosaurs have long been identified by the bony plates on their backs, the spikes on their tales, short.

Neutrinos have long perplexed physicists with their uncanny ability to evade detection, with as many as two-thirds of the.

Long maligned as nasty scavengers, hyenas turn out to be protective parents and accomplished hunters.

On a long wall, set the blocks at each end, then attach mason's line to a corner block at each end and pull it taut.

Their wings, he said, represent a compromise between a long narrow shape for gliding and a wide wing for heavy lifting.

The ivory-billed woodpecker, a majestic bird long thought to be extinct and long pursued by.

As long as mountaintop removal mining continues coal cannot be clean, even if the pollution from burning it can be minimized.

Collectors have long prized mollusks for their beautiful exteriors, but for scientists, it's what inside that matters.

Long clusters of light yellow, fluffy flowers appear in late fall or winter.

Australia has long called higher education one of its top exports.

Ancestral forms of play and laughter existed in other animals long before humans.

Psychologists have long known that many people are prejudiced towards others based on group affiliations, be.

Some are ingenious, some long overdue, and some a bit strange.

Plants are not fussy about soil as long as it is well drained.

High levels of fats in the snakes' blood balloons their organs after breaking a long fast, experiments show.

There is almost no reliable evidence that a warmer earth is actually worse for humanity in the long term.

The presence of the rooster's wattle has long been a puzzle because it seems to serve no purpose.

Such feats of navigation have long baffled students of animal behavior.

The double kinds can look messy, because they hold faded blooms for a long time.

If the millions of women who haul water long distances had a faucet by their door, whole societies could be transformed.

Surfing currents allows crocodiles to travel long distances.

Researchers have long wondered whether migratory birds return to their birthplace to breed.

Scientists have unearthed the remains of an ancient crocodile that was as long as a city bus and as heavy as a small whale.

Long considered fixed founts of molten material from deep within the planet, hot spots now join the list of moving parts.

Changes are on the way that should ease the grim gauntlet of long lines, security checks and cramped seats.

Flowers age to tannish gold, remain attractive for a long time.

Inspiration often seems to pop up unpredictably-in the shower, on a long walk or even at the grocery store.

One winter evening long ago, my mom's oven gave out an oily whoosh and started spitting flames.

Valued for a profuse show of color over long season.

New data is undermining the evidence that has long been proposed to support the eager males-choosy.

It is more than two miles long and about one and a half miles wide.

To grow these plants as shrubs, shorten any shoots that become too long.

Scientists have long thought that delayed gratification requires a sense of self, but experiments with dogs show otherwise.

But there is in fact a small group of hard-core kudzu enthusiasts who have long believed in kudzu's good points.

My husband favored me with a sigh suggesting that the family had long noted my derangement.

But there was something else, something visible from a long way off, that identified him.

There is no size fits all answer on how long the hiring process can take.

Your kids can only bob in the water for so long before the chlorine turns their hair a luminescent green.

Transcribing print and recorded music for the blind is a long and tedious process.

When making long exposures, use a remote release to avoid camera movement.

Tofu holds up beautifully on the grill as long as you use the firm nigari kind.

They have a long muzzle and sharp fangs designed to inflict deadly injury.

The long workbench and shelving in this garage are made from sections of a yellow pine bowling-alley lane.

Main Entry:	bulky
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	huge
Synonyms:	awkward, beefy, big, colossal, cumbersome, cumbrous, enormous, gross, heavy, hefty, high, hulking, immense, large, long, mammoth, massive, ponderous, substantial, unhandy, unmanageable, unwieldy, voluminous, weighty
Antonyms:	insubstantial, miniature, small, thin, tiny

Main Entry:	diffuse
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	wordy
Synonyms:	circumlocutory, copious, diffusive, digressive, discursive, dull, exuberant, lavish, lengthy, long, long-winded, loose, meandering, palaverous, profuse, prolix, rambling, random, redundant, vague, verbose, waffling, windy
Antonyms:	abbreviated, abridged, brief, short, succinct

Main Entry:	dragging
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	tiresome, monotonous
Synonyms:	boring, drawn-out, dull, going slowly, humdrum, lengthy, long, overlong, prolonged, protracted, tedious, wearisome
Antonyms:	energizing, lively

Main Entry:	dream
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	conjure up scenario
Synonyms:	be delirious, be moonstruck, be up in clouds, brainstorm, build castles in air, conceive, concoct, cook up, crave, create, daydream, devise, envisage, fancy, fantasize, formulate, hallucinate, hanker, hatch, have a flash, have a nightmare, have a notion, have a vision, hunger, idealize, imagine, invent, long, lust, make up, picture, pine, search for pot of gold, sigh, stargaze, sublimate, think, think up, thirst, visualize

Main Entry:	envy
Part of Speech:	verb
Definition:	be jealous of another
Synonyms:	be envious, begrudge, covet, crave, desire, die over, eat one's heart out, grudge, hanker, have hard feelings, hunger, long, lust, object to, resent, thirst, turn green, want, yearn
Notes:	jealousy is reflective of a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person, whereas envy expresses a person's feelings or attitudes toward another person's advantages or accomplishments; jealousy pertains to emotional rivalry while envy is resentment of a more fortunate person
Antonyms:	be confident, be content

Main Entry:	extended
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	lengthened
Synonyms:	continued, drawn-out, elongate, elongated, enlarged, lengthy, long, prolonged, protracted, spread, spread out, stretched out, unfolded, unfurled, very long
Antonyms:	abbreviated, abridged, compressed, condensed, contracted, curtailed, cut, lessened, reduced, shortened

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