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

Meanwhile, the Iranian operation involved seven fake journalist personas that were used to pitch long-form articles to news outlets. — David Zimmermann, The Washington Examiner, 8 Oct. 2026

Their replacements, which include Ross Douthat and contributors like Ariel Levy and Sebastian Junger, have top-shelf backgrounds, but also little experience working on a weekly TV program that emphsizes long-form enterprise journalism. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 6 Oct. 2026

Magazines ran in-depth profiles of individual players and long-form stories about epic playoff battles. — Alex Volonte, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026

Thirty years after Northern Exposure turned two DJs’ record collections into a long-form journey through progressive, psychedelic and ambient dance music, Sasha and John Digweed are opening the vault. — Spin Staff, SPIN, 29 Sep. 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