long-form

adjective

ˈlȯŋ-ˌfȯrm 

variants or less commonly longform

: notably long in form in comparison to what is common or typical for works or content of a particular category

Making Michael Jackson's Thriller … spawned the long-form music video.

—Paul Taublieb

His compositions are long-form; by a comparative ratio to most piano players, there's not much soloing. Like good long-form structures, they don't always strike you as such; the written parts ease into solos without giving notice.

—Ben Ratliff

especially, journalism : covering a subject at much greater length and in much greater depth than a standard news article

Long-form and investigative stories were replaced by short, searchable bursts of information.

—Adam Weinstein

Mine was a world made new by memoir and biography, investigative journalism and longform essay.

—E. Ce Miller

see also:

short-form

Examples of long-form in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

When a power user pushes for an extensive, long-form synthesis, the system's optimization guardrails actively fight the input to keep token generation low, sacrificing depth to protect processing margins. — New Atlas, 4 Sep. 2026

Hulbert is preparing to release her first long-form fiction novel, which takes readers back to 2007 to follow 29-year-old jewelry sales associate Veronika DeMarco after she was cast on the popular reality TV dating show Man or Million. — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 1 Sep. 2026

Messaging is exempt from the restrictions, and time spent watching long-form videos would not count against the daily limit. — Ethan Baron, Mercury News, 27 Aug. 2026

Features were usually to scale, to fit into the evolving broadcast clock—four to seven minutes being the sweet spot—but long-form documentaries did begin to both celebrate and question the American dream. — Literary Hub, 26 Aug. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for long-form

• brainstorm
• conform
• deform
• firestorm
• hailstorm
• inform
• landform
• lukewarm
• perform
• planform
• platform
• preform