Usually means: Extended in duration or size.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word Lengthy:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. lengthy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lengthy: Merriam-Webster
  3. lengthy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lengthy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lengthy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lengthy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lengthy, lengthy: Wordnik
  8. lengthy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lengthy: Wiktionary
  10. lengthy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lengthy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lengthy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lengthy, lengthy: Dictionary.com
  14. lengthy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lengthy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. lengthy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. lengthy: Rhymezone
  18. Lengthy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. lengthy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. LENGTHY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  21. lengthy: FreeDictionary.org
  22. lengthy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lengthy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lengthy: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lengthy)

▸ adjective:  Having length; long and overextended, especially in time rather than dimension.
▸ adjective:  Speaking or writing at length; long-winded.

Similar:
protracted, drawn-out, prolonged, extended, long, lengthsome, lengthed, long-drawn-out, book-length, longspun, more...

Opposite:
brief, short, concise, succinct, compact

Types:
epic, epicurean, epicure, prolix, prolixity, more...

Phrases:
a lengthy period of time, lengthy skirt, lengthy line, lengthy discourse, too lengthy, more...

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Similar:
protracted, drawn-out, prolonged, extended, long, lengthsome, lengthed, long-drawn-out, book-length, longspun, more...

Opposite:
brief, short, concise, succinct, compact

Types:
epic, epicurean, epicure, prolix, prolixity, more...

Phrases:
a lengthy period of time, lengthy skirt, lengthy line, lengthy discourse, too lengthy, lengthy speech, lengthy process, lengthy weapon, lengthy scolding, lengthy distance, lengthy discussion, more...

Colors:
    olive,     charcoal,     burgundy,     forest green,     maroon, more...



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