Lengthy things are long and drawn out. Your teacher's lengthy lecture might extend far beyond the end of class and leave many people dozing at their desks.
Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.
Adjective S.
relatively long in duration; tediously protracted; "a drawn-out argument"; "an extended discussion"; "a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law"; "a prolonged and bitter struggle"; "protracted negotiations"
superl.
Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not
brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.
Lengthy
Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.
Usage Examples
But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing.
Whatever universe a professor believes in must at any rate be a universe that lends itself to lengthy discourse. A universe definable in two sentences is something for which the professorial intellect has no use. No faith in anything of that cheap kind!
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Other Usage ExamplesThe first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
When I speak of 'cycles,' I am referring to lengthy intervals of relative homogeneity, if not in the resolving of problems, than at least with respect to the consistency of their capacity to productively irritate.
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