Adjective: oblong
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more oblong |
| Superlative | most oblong |
Sample Sentences
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The room was quite dark. The oblong window showed the night sky pricked here and there with stars. [1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 19:]
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Plant upright spreading hardy, vigorous and productive; berry, oblong, round, medium size, sweet but rather ideipid. [1902, A. W. Peart, “Blackberries: Notes by A. W. Peart”, in Annual Report, page 41:]
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Of the smaller oblong formats, none is specifically designated for music. [1971, Donald William Krummel, Oblong Format in Early Music Books, page 316:]
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Mass cycles and motets had never been presented in small oblong format, so far as we can tell. [2017, Sean Gallagher, Secular Renaissance Music: Forms and Functions:]
Adjectives inflected like oblong
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English oblong, oblonge, borrowed from Latin oblongus. See: Latin Adjectives '
oblongus'.