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lengthy

lengthy adjective: having length; long and overextended, especially in time rather than dimension.

Adjective

lengthy (comparative lengthier, superlative lengthiest)

  1. Having length; long and overextended, especially in time rather than dimension.
    • a lengthy text
    • a lengthy discussion
  2. Speaking or writing at length; long-winded.
    • If, in addition to being a lengthy preacher, he had also been a Rev. Mr. Mumbles or a Rev. Dr. Drone, the penance thus endured by his people would have been intolerably severe.1863, John Cumming, Driftwood, seaweed and fallen leaves, volume 1, page 92

lengthy meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

lengthy in Tamil

நீளமான, நெட்டநெடியது

lengthy in Urdu

دراز, لمبا, طویل

lengthy in Bengali

lengthy
দীর্ঘ dirgho

lengthy in Malayalam

long-lasting, (very) long, prolonged
സുദീർഘ, നീളമുള്ള, നീണ്ട, വാരുറ്റ, നിഠന, വളരെനീണ്ട
protracted, overlong, long-drawn-out
വലിച്ചുനീട്ടിയ, നീട്ടിക്കൊണ്ടുപോകുന്ന, വിപ്രകൃഷ്ട, ക്രമാധികമായി വലിച്ചുനീട്ടിയ, അനാവശ്യമായി വലിച്ചുനീട്ടിയ, അതിദീർഘമായ

Examples of lengthy in a sentence

  • a laborious and lengthy process
  • She died last night after a lengthy illness.
  • They received lengthy prison terms.
  • They traced the ancient lineages of two species to reveal the insects' lengthy history of asexual reproduction.2011 July 19, Ella Davies, “Sticks insects survive one million years without sex”, in BBC:

All 40 example sentences with lengthy

Forms of lengthy

comparativelengthier
superlativelengthiest

Origin of lengthy

From length + -y.

Words formed from lengthy

Questions about lengthy

What does lengthy mean?
Lengthy means having length; long and overextended, especially in time rather than dimension.
What is lengthy in Tamil?
Lengthy in Tamil is நீளமான, நெட்டநெடியது. See Lengthy meaning in Tamil.
How do you use lengthy in a sentence?
a laborious and lengthy process
What part of speech is lengthy?
Lengthy is an adjective.

Words near lengthy in the dictionary

  1. lengthsman
  2. lengthsmen
  3. lengthsome
  4. lengthways
  5. lengthwise
  6. lengthy
  7. lengua
  8. Lengyel
  9. Lenham
  10. Lenham Heath
  11. Lenhard

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lengthy (page history and authors); lengthy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); lengthy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); দীর্ঘ (Bengali) (page history and authors); lengthy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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