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

But running parallel to this is the rise in long-form podcasts. —Big Think, 11 Mar. 2026

Pandey is a firm believer in the long-form model that streaming enables. —Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 9 Mar. 2026

Going into Luigi, Mandelup and her main collaborators — producer Lauren Cioffi, field producer Peter Heres, and director of photography Benjamin Whatley — had all been eager to break out of years-long production cycles inherent to long-form documentary filmmaking. —Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2026

And The Undead is the first long-form text that was born in English and exists in English. —Literary Hub, 2 Mar. 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