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

Halligan began her career in Hong Kong at The South China Morning Post before shifting into long-form criticism, industry reporting and authorship in London. —Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 6 Dec. 2025

In response to Cassidy’s post on X, which singled Siri out, Siri fired back in his own post, challenging Cassidy to a long-form debate. —Erika Edwards, NBC news, 4 Dec. 2025

Over hundreds of posts, the account takes a comedic, long-form response to the centuries-old history of fog-hate that has garnered an avid fan base of more than 300,000 followers each on Instagram and X. —Luis Melecio-Zambrano, Mercury News, 2 Dec. 2025

Emma has also written for publications including the Observer and The China Project, publishing long-form stories on culture, entertainment, and geopolitics. —Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 28 Nov. 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