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

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

One example is Famous Labs, a studio developing a suite of platforms that span app creation, long-form content generation, marketing workflows, and advanced creative engines. —William Jones, USA Today, 25 Nov. 2025

Austin continued documenting her layoff experience, committing 30 to 40 hours per week to creating three long-form videos and shorter social cuts of her new routine. —Jennifer Liu raffi Paul, CNBC, 20 Nov. 2025

YouTube is long-form — people expect to watch a story develop over there. —Big Think, 19 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