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

This comes as the platform faces high AI content saturation, with over 40% of long-form posts being fully AI-generated. — Jodie Cook, Forbes.com, 10 Aug. 2026

For three decades, rap legend and cultural icon Tupac Shakur’s killing has remained one of America’s great unsolved mysteries, spawning countless books, documentaries and long-form investigative journalism pieces. — Marlow Stern, Variety, 10 Aug. 2026

Forty-six percent of US Internet households regularly use FAST services to watch long-form video content, according to a Q3 2025 survey of 8,009 US households by Parks Associates. — Scharon Harding, ArsTechnica, 5 Aug. 2026

Sarandos noted that the shows overindex with mobile users relative to long-form series and have driven up engagement a bit during daytime hours. — Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 16 July 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