Antonyms for lengthy
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : lengk-thee, leng-, len- |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈlɛŋk θi, ˈlɛŋ-, ˈlɛn- |
Definition of lengthy
Origin :- 1759, American English, from length + -y (2). Until c.1840 always characterized in British English as an Americanism.
- This word has been very common among us, both in writing and in the language of conversation; but it has been so much ridiculed by Americans as well as Englishmen, that in writing it is now generally avoided. Mr. Webster has admitted it into his dictionary; but as need hardly be remarked it is not in any of the English ones. It is applied by us, as Mr. Webster justly observes, chiefly to writings or discourses. Thus we say, a lengthy pamphlet, a lengthy sermon, &c. The English would say, a long or (in the more familiar style) a longish sermon. [John Pickering, "A Vocabulary, or Collection of Words and Phrases Which Have Been Supposed to be Peculiar to the United States of America," Boston, 1816]
- Related: Lengthily; lengthiness.
- adj extended
- His oration was lengthy and his eulogy spoken with evident emotion.
- Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook
- The description of Ranelagh (in the chapter on Music) is too lengthy to reproduce.
- Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
- Fatigued by this lengthy speech, I closed my eyes and yawned.
- Extract from : « A Hero of Our Time » by M. Y. Lermontov
- And he had written a lengthy epistle on the state of Ireland.
- Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
- It is right, but too lengthy to be worth as much as a Quadratic.
- Extract from : « A Tangled Tale » by Lewis Carroll
- After a lengthy discussion the following was approved as their opinion.
- Extract from : « The New York Stock Exchange in the Crisis of 1914 » by Henry George Stebbins Noble
- If the lengthy Blount account had been settled he would have been still more so.
- Extract from : « Cap'n Dan's Daughter » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- "I trust you will find a item or two as will be of interest," he said, after a lengthy pause.
- Extract from : « Aunt Rachel » by David Christie Murray
- The Ministry of Science and Technology had sent up a lengthy one.
- Extract from : « Ministry of Disturbance » by Henry Beam Piper
- "Why, you and that girl must be preparing a lengthy address," she said to Davy jestingly.
- Extract from : « David Lannarck, Midget » by George S. Harney
Synonyms for lengthy
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