long – English adjective declension

English adjective forms of long

Adjective: long

Comparison Forms

Synthetic

Comparativelonger
Superlativelongest

Perifrastic

Comparativemore long
Superlativemost long

Sample Sentences

  • I need a long piece of wood.
  • It’s a long way from the Earth to the Moon.
  • How long was your newborn baby?
  • We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • The face which emerged was not reassuring.[…]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls. [1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:]
  • A mature silkworm is an impressive 2¾ inches (70 mm) long and eats 50,000 times its mature body weight over the course of its development. [2026, Elise Young, “Yagaa: Reviving Sericulture in Southern Mexico”, in Spin Off, volume L, number 1, page 16:]
  • This table is long but not very high.
  • Smith hoofs a long ball up to Jones.
  • My ex was very strong but not very long.
  • The plane touched down long and overran the end of the runway.
  • Juneau was making good time with the other surviving U.S. Navy ships, despite her damage, when the I-26 spotted her and sent a salvo of Type 95 torpedoes in her direction. Passing between the Helena and San Francisco, some indication being they had actually been shot at the San Francisco and gone long because San Francisco was travelling significantly slower than expected, they nonetheless hit Juneau and detonated the ship’s magazine. [2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 28:10 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 07 Nov 2022:]
  • That forehand was long. It landed two feet beyond the baseline.
  • The pass was long and was gathered by the opposing goalkeeper.
  • His speech was long and dull.
  • The pyramids of Egypt have been around for a long time.
  • I took a long look at the house, knowing it was for the last time.
  • I had occasion […] to make a somewhat long business trip to Chicago, and on my return […] I found Farrar awaiting me in the railway station. He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, […], and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. I was completely mystified at such an unusual proceeding. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • It took us three long weeks to clear the stones from the field.
  • It'll be a long journey home for the travelling supporters after that 5-0 defeat.
  • What I suffered with that rein for four long months in my lady’s carriage, it would be hard to describe, but I am quite sure that, had it lasted much longer, either my health or my temper would have given way. [[1877], Anna Sewell, “A Strike for Liberty”, in Black Beauty: […], London: Jarrold and Sons, […], →OCLC, part II, page 109:]
  • The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. [1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter I, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:]
  • Bless ’em all, bless ’em all, the long, the short and the tall. [1940, Fred Godfrey, “Bless 'Em All”performed by George Formby:]
  • I’m long in DuPont.
  • I have a long position in DuPont.
  • But Campbell thus did ſhut vp all in ieſt, / Braue Knights and Ladies, certes ye doe wrong / To ſtirre vp ſtrife, when moſt vs needeth reſt, / That we may vs reſerue both freſh and ſtrong, / Againſt the Turneiment which is not long. [1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IIII, Canto IIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, page 55:]
  • I’m talkin’ ’bout… I’m talkin’ ’bout that long money. [2011 December 18, “Ballin' Uncontrollably” (track 7), in King Mather's LP, performed by Eminem:]
  • Me and broke niggas, we don’t get along (Nah). Hair long (Long), money long (Yeah). [2012 November 8, “I'm Different” (track 6), in Based on a T.R.U. Story, performed by 2 Chainz:]
  • Never lie, money longer than Pinnochio. [2013 June 12, “Shoulda Woulda” (track 16), in Project Baby, performed by Kodak Black:]
  • Rent-a-cars we road run, money longer than train smoke. [2013 October 7, “No Regrets” (track 7), in My Name Is My Name, performed by Pusha T:]
  • Money so long, it’s offensive. [2016 November 24, “Upgrade You”performed by Kash Doll:]
  • Don't get it twisted, I love my fans. Everything about them keeps me strong. They're the reason why my money be long. Trust me bro, my money be long. [2017, “Uber Everywhere Freestyle 2”performed by Cadet (rapper):]
  • I got some rope in the trunk, tape and one shovel
  • Long money, talkin’ billions, nigga, and I want several [2021 September 24, “Hell on Earth, Pt. 2”, in Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Side B, performed by Westside Gunn:]
  • "Cadet, Cadet!" Not every day, fam. Can't you see why it's long? I just wanna get my creps and be gone. [2017, “Uber Everywhere Freestyle 2”performed by Cadet (rapper):]
  • BOY: B, this is long for man, you know.
  • B: Keep complaining.
  • BOY: Fucking gemming it with these things (he continues collecting empty drinks cans). [2022 March 18, Ronan Bennett, Gerry Jackson, Tyrone Rashard, Sagirah Gammon, 00:35:44 from the start, in Brady Hood, director, Top Boy (Good Morals) (4), episode 1 (TV), spoken by unnamed boy, girl called B:]
  • INCHEZ: Man this is long! We’ve been in here for time! [2023 January 15, Layton Williams, 12:51 from the start, in Freddy Syborn, director, Bad Education (Prison) (4), episode 3 (TV), spoken by Inchez (Anthony J. Abraham):]
  • [Verse 1: Sleeks]: Keep thinking about Ps that I need but it’s long. All these things that I've done in the streets got me on my knees trying to reason with God. B-B beefin’ is long but I might still greeze up a Don. [2015 September 18, “Brand New” (track 6), in Don't Panic, performed by Smoke Boys:]
  • MOBEEN: I do love nature when it’s on television and David Attenborough’s presenting. I hate nature in real life! Smells like shite around here! Plants and (he waves a fly away) …plants and that. It’s so long! [2017 December 17, Guz Khan, Andy Milligan, “Upper Room” (00:38 from the start), in Ollie Parsons, director, Man Like Mobeen (1), episode 3 (TV), spoken by Mobeen Deen (Guz Khan):]
  • DUSHANE: I’m stepping back from the roads now. All of that shit is long! And by next year, I want to be completely legit, then it’s just me, you and Tish. [2022 March 18, Ronan Bennett, Gerry Jackson, Tyrone Rashard, Sagirah Gammon, 00:15:46 from the start, in Brady Hood, director, Top Boy (Good Morals) (4), episode 1 (TV), spoken by Dushane (Ashley Walters):]
  • Nah fuck that I don't like mixing my circles like that. Plus if some shit goes bad I gotta be in the middle it's all long [2023 February 18, Simba-xiv, “Most Guys Know That They're^([sic]) Friends Aren't Shit With Women”, in Reddit (subreddit: BlackPeopleTwitter):]
  • JAMIE: Yo, if I see you man round here again, it is long for you! [2022 March 18, Ronan Bennett, Gerry Jackson, Tyrone Rashard, 32:20 from the start, in William Stefan Smith, director, Top Boy (Prove Yourself) (4), episode 8 (TV), spoken by Jamie (Micheal Ward):]

Adjectives inflected like long

wholsom, seldom, scared, solemn, silent, beloved, uptight, perfect, useless, up-tight, selfish, distinct, discreet, Dutch, reckless, bumfuck, worthless, slender, faithfull, shallow, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos
3. Proto-Germanic *langaz
4. Proto-West Germanic *lang
5. Old English lang
6. Middle English long
7. English long
8. From Middle English long, lang, from Old English long, lang (“long, tall, lasting”), from Proto-West Germanic *lang, from Proto-Germanic *langaz (“long”), from Proto-Indo-European *dlongʰos (“long”).
9. Cognates
10. Cognate with Scots lang (“long”), Yola lhaung, long (“long”), North Frisian long, lung, lüng (“long”), Saterland Frisian loang (“long”), West Frisian lang (“long”), Cimbrian lång (“long”), Dutch, German, and Low German lang (“long”), Luxembourgish laang (“long”), Mòcheno lònk (“long”), Vilamovian łaong (“long”), Yiddish לאַנג (lang, “long”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk lang (“long”), Faroese and Icelandic langur (“long”), Swedish lång (“long”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍃 (laggs, “long”); also Latin longus (“long”) (whence French long (“long”), Italian lungo (“long”), Portuguese longo (“long”), Spanish luengo (“long”)), Ancient Greek δολιχός (dolikhós, “long; wearisome”), Albanian gjatë (“long; tall”), Latvian ilgs (“long”), Lithuanian ilgas (“long”), Belarusian до́ўгі (dówhi, “long”), Bulgarian дъ́лъг (dắlăg, “long”), Czech dlúhý (“long”), Macedonian долг (dolg, “long”), Polish długi (“long”), Russian дли́нный (dlínnyj, “lengthy, long”), до́лгий (dólgij, “long”), Serbo-Croatian ду̏г, dȕg (“long”), Slovak dlhý (“long”), Slovene dolg (“long”), Ukrainian до́вгий (dóvhyj, “long”), Ossetian даргъ (darǧ, “late”), Central Kurdish دێر (dêr), درەنگ (dreng, “late”), Northern Kurdish dereng (“late”), Persian دیر (dēr / dir, “late; long”), درنگ (derang, “delay”), Sanskrit दीर्घ (dīrgha, “long”) (whence Bengali দীর্ঘ (dirgho, “long; tall”), Dhivehi ދިގު (digu, “long, lengthy”), Kalasha driga, dríga (“long; tall”), Kholosi taɽgo (“long”), Khowar درونگ (drung, “long”), Hindi दीर्घ (dīrgh, “long; tall; weighty”), Nepali दिघो (digho, “stable”), Odia ଦୀର୍ଘ (dirgha, “long”), Sinhalese දිග (diga, “long”), Urdu دیرگھ (dīrgh, “long; tall; weighty”)), Kamkata-viri drëgeř, drëgëř, drëŋëň, dërëgeň (“long; tall”), Prasuni jigni (“long; tall”).
11. The word shows the regular historical change of a to o before certain consonant clusters such as ng (compare with other examples in Middle and Modern English such as bond, song, throng, and wrong). The o-form may have also been reinforced by Old French long, from Latin longus, from the same Indo-European word. Doublet of lungo and lunge. See: Swedish Adjectives 'lång', Gothic Adjectives '𐌻𐌰𐌲𐌲𐍃', Latin Adjectives 'longus', French Adjectives 'long', Italian Adjectives 'lungo', Portuguese Adjectives 'longo', Spanish Adjectives 'luengo', Czech Adjectives 'dlúhý', Polish Adjectives 'długi', Slovak Adjectives 'dlhý', Latin Adjectives 'longus'.

Verbs referencing "long"

French Adjectives long, Swedish Adjectives lång, Spanish Adjectives luengo.