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

Examples of long-form in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The American-Statesman received six top awards from the Society for Features Journalism in various categories for excellence in long-form storytelling. —Staff Report, Austin American Statesman, 2 July 2025

FilmRise was also early in acquiring and adapting short form creator content from YouTube into long-form episodes for streaming. —Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 1 July 2025

Here on a secluded peak, people have made real a thesis about the limits of long-form human coordination while managing a psychedelic balancing act, calibrating a machine to the smallest units of measurement in order to seek out the biggest objects in the universe. —Michael Jones McKean, The Atlantic, 23 June 2025

For that, long-form content can be the way to go, creating meaningful attachment beyond the thrill of a captivating 10-second video. —Malana Vantyler, USA Today, 23 June 2025

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