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Definitions

at length

ADJECTIVE

detailed

Synonyms

STRONGEST

accurate complicated comprehensive definite exact exhaustive intricate meticulous precise specific thorough

STRONG

amplified circumstantiated complete described developed disclosed elaborate elaborated enumerated exhausting full individualized narrow specified unfolded

WEAK

abundant all-inclusive blow-by-blow circumstantial clocklike copious finicky fussy individual minute nice point-by-point seriatim

Antonyms

STRONGEST

careless false imprecise inaccurate indefinite inexact questionable simple uncertain vague

STRONG

incomplete needy

WEAK

brief cursory inexhaustive nonspecific sparing uncomplicated undetailed

ADJECTIVE

rambling

Synonyms

STRONG

covering scattered spreading straggling strewn trailing

WEAK

gangling here and there irregular random unplanned

Antonyms

WEAK

connected direct straight straightforward

ADVERB

ad infinitum

Synonyms

WEAK

continuously endlessly forever having no end in perpetuity interminably never-ending on and on perpetually relentlessly unlimitedly without end without limit

ADVERB

ad nauseam

Synonyms

WEAK

boringly endlessly in detail lengthily long-windedly more than one can stomach repeatedly repetitively to an excessive degree to nauseating extremes to the point of queasiness too much

ADVERB

finally

Synonyms

STRONGEST

already belatedly eventually someday sooner or later subsequently ultimately

STRONG

lastly

WEAK

after a while after all as a sequel at last at long last at the eleventh hour at the end at the last moment despite delay in conclusion in spite of all in the eleventh hour in the long run sometime tardily

Antonyms

STRONGEST

never

WEAK

doubtfully dubiously inconclusively

Example Sentences

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“The fact that I was a bad boyfriend a decade ago, that’s something I’ve talked about openly at length for quite some time in multiple places,” he told Hayes on Thursday.

From Slate • Jun. 5, 2026

On Substack, writer Scott Mills took a deep dive into the public details of the Chopra-Epstein relationship, writing at length about his sense of “heartbreak.”

From Salon • May 19, 2026

Mr. Epstein writes at length about how Virginia Woolf used creative constraints to develop her modernist novels.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 13, 2026

And of course it is worth remembering, as the committee discussed at length, that by this point the appointment of Lord Mandelson as ambassador had already been publicly announced.

From BBC • Apr. 21, 2026

The dusk was deep when at length they set out, creeping over the westward rim of the dell, and fading like ghosts into the broken country on the borders of the road.

From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien

at length

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