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overlong
adjective as in long
Weak matches
- continued
- deep
- distant
- dragging
- drawn-out
- elongate
- elongated
- enduring
- enlarged
- expanded
- extensive
- far-off
- far-reaching
- faraway
- gangling
- great
- high
- lanky
- lasting
- lengthened
- lengthy
- lingering
- lofty
- long-drawn-out
- longish
- outstretched
- prolonged
- protracted
- rangy
- remote
- running
- spread-out
- spun out
- stretch
- stretched
- stretching
- stringy
- sustained
- tall
- towering
Example Sentences
Too much of the show, however, was bogged down by sketches that were underwritten and overlong.
At 143 minutes and with a $225 million price tag, Man of Steel feels overlong and overdone.
It is hard to challenge these lies with a well-reasoned-but-overlong speech...
Her Oscar speech was a notoriously overlong, over-earnest, tear-filled, three-minute meltdown.
His antlers, this year, had been late to mature and overlong in the velvet.
Even the softest cushion grows hard, Master Pennington, when a man waits overlong.
But in wartime especially, too much patience becomes a dubious virtue, and if practiced for overlong may become a fault.
I have not learned to keep up a feast overlong in the camps of Carl, however, and I was for my bed.
They were already lingering overlong and Billy jumped up and packed their supply of food in sudden haste.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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