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lengthy

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Adjective
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length=y
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2 in 2 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses) (in NT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

lengthya. 
     Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.  Trench.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

lengthy, adj. (lengthier, lengthiest)
1 of unusual length.
2 (of speech, writing, style, a speaker, etc.) tedious, prolix.

Derivative
lengthily adv. lengthiness n.

THESAURUS

lengthy

a mile long, boring, colossal, de longue haleine, dragging, drawn-out, dull, elongate, elongated, endless, extended, extensive, far-flung, far-reaching, fargoing, filled out, gangling, gangly, garrulous, giant, gigantic, interminable, lank, lanky, leggy, long, long-drawn-out, long-legged, long-spun, long-winded, longiloquent, longish, longsome, loquacious, no end of, overlong, padded, prolix, prolonged, protracted, rangy, sesquipedal, sesquipedalian, spun-out, statuesque, talkative, tall, tedious, unrelenting, verbose, windy, without end, wordy

ROGET THESAURUS

lengthy

Diffuseness

N diffuseness, amplification, dilating, verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum, flow of words, looseness, Polylogy, tautology, battology, perissology, pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy, thrice-told tale, prolixity, circumlocution, ambages, periphrase, periphrasis, roundabout phrases, episode, expletive, pennya-lining, richness, diffuse, profuse, wordy, verbose, largiloquent, copious, exuberant, pleonastic, lengthy, longsome, long-winded, longspun, long drawn out, spun out, protracted, prolix, prosing, maundering, circumlocutory, periphrastic, ambagious, roundabout, digressive, discursive, excursive, loose, rambling episodic, flatulent, frothy, diffusely, at large, in extenso, about it and about it.

Length

N length, longitude, span, mileage, distance, line, bar, rule, stripe, streak, spoke, radius, lengthening, prolongation, production, protraction, tension, tensure, extension, line, nail, inch, hand, palm, foot, cubit, yard, ell, fathom, rood, pole, furlong, mile, league, chain, link, arpent, handbreadth, jornada, kos, vara, astronomical unit, AU, light- year, parsec, nanometer, nm, micron, micrometer, millimicron, millimeter, mm, centimeter, cm, meter, kilometer, km, pedometer, perambulator, scale, long, longsome, lengthy, wiredrawn, outstretched, lengthened, sesquipedalian, interminable, no end of, macrocolous, linear, lineal, longitudinal, oblong, as long as my arm, as long as today and tomorrow, unshortened &c (shorten), lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong, along, tandem, in a line, in perspective, from end to end, from stem to stern, from head to foot, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, from top to toe, fore and aft.


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