Definition for Lengthy:

• Of great length: rather long.

Synonyms for Lengthy:

• adj.

  •diffuse (adjective)
  • more waffling,
  • meandering,
  • dis cursive,
  • most diffusive,
  • more diffusive,
  • more circumlocutory,
  • most circumlocutory,
  • most waffling,
  • co pious,
  • most palaverous,
  • pro-fuse,
  • co-pious,
  • pro fuse,
  • more palaverous,
  • profuse,
  • dis-cursive,
  • long winded.
  •dragging (adjective)
  • going slowly.
  •drawn-out (adjective)
  • drawnout,
  • drawn out.
  •durable (adjective)
  • interminable,
  • lasting,
  • prolonged,
  • perpetual,
  • eternal,
  • perennial,
  • everlasting,
  • lifelong,
  • long-life,
  • livelong,
  • lifetime,
  • durable,
  • enduring,
  • incessant.
  •extended (adjective)
  • verbose,
  • diffuse,
  • longish,
  • wordy,
  • tedious,
  • protracted,
  • wearisome,
  • very long,
  • lengthened,
  • unfurled,
  • spread out,
  • long-winded,
  • stretched out,
  • tiresome,
  • elongated,
  • padded,
  • prolix.
  •extensive (adjective)
  • more allencompassing,
  • more unexclusive,
  • more expanded,
  • most wide ranging,
  • large scale,
  • most all-encompassing,
  • most scopic,
  • far flung,
  • in-discriminate,
  • un-restricted,
  • more scopic,
  • uni versal,
  • more wide ranging,
  • across board,
  • most scopious,
  • wide ranging,
  • all encompassing,
  • more comprising,
  • wall to wall,
  • largescale,
  • more all-encompassing,
  • uni-versal,
  • most wide-ranging,
  • wideranging,
  • all inclusive,
  • un-exclusive,
  • more wideranging,
  • un exclusive,
  • more scopious,
  • in discriminate,
  • most unexclusive,
  • most wideranging,
  • most allencompassing,
  • wide-ranging,
  • farflung,
  • most comprising,
  • voluminous,
  • more extensive,
  • allinclusive,
  • more wide-ranging,
  • allencompassing,
  • more all encompassing,
  • ex tensive,
  • un restricted,
  • most all encompassing,
  • most expanded,
  • ex-tensive,
  • wholesale,
  • wall wall.
  •great (adjective)
  • more humongous,
  • greater,
  • most humongous,
  • fatter,
  • most oversize,
  • more mondo,
  • over size,
  • bullest,
  • gigantic,
  • most mondo,
  • over-size,
  • in-ordinate,
  • more oversize.
  •long (adjective)
  • without end,
  • far off,
  • outstretched,
  • faraway,
  • for ages,
  • spun out,
  • forever and a day,
  • gangling,
  • stretching.
  •long-drawn-out (adjective)
  • long drawn out.
  •overlong (adjective)
  • over long.
  •prolonged (adjective)
  • pro-longed,
  • pro longed.
  •wordy (adjective)
  • talkative,
  • bombastic,
  • superfluous,
  • endless,
  • loquacious,
  • rambling,
  • ponderous,
  • wandering,
  • chatty,
  • grandiloquent,
  • excessive,
  • featherbedding.

• n.

  •
  • day in day out,
  • persistent,
  • forever.
  •
  • elongate.
  •
  • excite.
  •drawn-out (noun)
  • drawn-out.
  •prolix (noun)
  • not brief.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • unremitting,
  • Overlong,
  • lingering,
  • long-drawn-out,
  • unrelieved.
  •
  • persevering.
  •Other relevant words:
  • gangly,
  • daddy longlegs,
  • copious,
  • discursive,
  • exuberant,
  • Prosing,
  • rangy,
  • garrulous,
  • statuesque,
  • eventual,
  • digressive,
  • final,
  • Long-drawn,
  • maundering,
  • large,
  • dull,
  • pleonastic,
  • words,
  • colossal,
  • boring,
  • filled out,
  • yearlong,
  • lanky,
  • redundant,
  • tautological,
  • frothy,
  • king-size,
  • drawling,
  • excursive,
  • Longshanks,
  • slow,
  • far-flung,
  • lank,
  • sesquipedalian,
  • far,
  • elaborate,
  • wide,
  • Sesquipedal,
  • Wiredrawn,
  • ample,
  • periphrastic,
  • attenuated,
  • unrelenting,
  • Longspun,
  • tall,
  • Longsome,
  • expanded,
  • roundabout,
  • far-reaching,
  • fargoing,
  • long-legged,
  • backbreaking,
  • bimestrial,
  • Largiloquent,
  • oblong,
  • loose,
  • giant,
  • long-spun,
  • leggy,
  • ambagious,
  • broad,
  • longer,
  • nightlong,
  • longlegs,
  • flatulent,
  • no end of.

Paraphrases for Lengthy:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    protracted, time-consuming, drawn-out, long-winded, voluminous, long-standing, extended, long-running.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    long-lasting, interminable, bulky, detailed, tedious, full-length, slow, lasting, endless, lingering, long-life, thorough, wide-ranging, time-wasting, long-time, long-established, enduring, sluggish, exhaustive, in-depth, long-barrelled, longer-term, painstaking, large, comprehensive, never-ending, long-duration, unending, extensive, substantial, long-, vast, long-form, broad, long-staple, long-lived, difficult, slow-moving, burdensome, huge, long-haul, far-reaching, excessive, great, significant, long-range, wide, delayed, Lang.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    extensive.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    longstanding, long-drawn-out, length, laborious, cumbersome, considerable.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    length.

Antonyms for Lengthy:

• adj.

  • extended
    abbreviated, Curtailed, shortened.
  • Other antonyms:
    diminished, undersized, impermanent, puny, ephemeral, minute, fleeting, smallish, short-term, condensed, transient, sudden, short-range, shortish, short-lived, diminutive, curt, teeny, miniature, small, wee, bitty, tiny, abrupt, little, abridged, mini, momentary, transitory.

Lengthy Sentence Examples:

• In 1809 this faction became a majority and opposed the other so vigorously that in 1815 the Wheelock party set forth its case in a lengthy pamphlet.

• Madeleine, said Molly, suddenly, after a lengthy pause, I am simply haunted by that light over yonder, the Light of Scarthey.

Homophones for Lengthy:

• lingcod, linocut, lamaist, lancet, lancewood, leoncita, lanset, lounge suit, longitude, lynx-eyed, langset, long-dated, long shot, long whist, laying waste, Lammas Day, luminosity, langouste, long suit, lammastide, limacoid, langsat, lansat, length, low-necked, linked, longsighted, langside, long-jawed, long-headed, lunkhead, longshot, languid, linseed, lemon zest, limacidae, linecut, linguist.