OVERLONG Synonyms: 44 Similar and Opposite Words

overlong

adjective

Definition of overlong

as in prolonged

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Recent Examples of overlong There was a parade of nations, perhaps overlong, but analogue and human-scale. — Jack Lang, New York Times, 9 June 2026 But with overlong episodes and lightweight plots, the show is holding itself back from something much greater. — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 2 June 2026 Some unnecessary, overlong scenes do drag, allowing the audience to get sidetracked. — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 6 May 2026 Musically, Swift’s pivot toward concision feels like a response to claims that her last album was repetitive and overlong. — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for overlong

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Adjective

Each night, Portia settles upside down beneath its silk abode, alternating prolonged stillness with brief episodes of retinal movements, twitching, and occasional leg curling.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 2 Nov. 2026
Sural Shah, part of a team of physicians with the American Academy of Pediatrics who have visited several shelters for migrant children over the past year, said many are developing mental illnesses due to prolonged shelter stays.

— CBS News, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026

Definition of prolonged

Adjective

Fond of travel but afraid to fly, Pan would take longish vacations in the Mediterranean, the Middle East, or Mexico, sometimes accompanied by his nieces.

— David Hajdu, Vanity Fair, 20 Oct. 2026
Throughout the event, a guy bounds around, introducing the recordists, then crouching to cue their recordings on a laptop, his dark, longish hair under a black dad cap bearing the club’s name.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of longish

Adjective

Oil jumped by more than 5% to $95 a barrel, while Asian stocks slid over worries the latest attacks point to protracted hostilities.

— Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 2 Sep. 2026
Carriage negotiations between more traditional TV providers and the network owners regularly turn into protracted affairs, causing channel blackouts if not lawsuits.

— Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 1 Sep. 2026

Definition of protracted

Adjective

Where the Madden’s bisection was fortuitous, the gods’ strike against humans set us off on an interminable search for restoration to a former wholeness.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
Sent from pillar to post – to the bank’s Accounts, Payments and Claims treading dark puddled basement corridors and joining seemingly interminable lines.

— John Hopewell, Variety, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of interminable

Adjective

Gulf War legacy The device addresses a persistent threat from munitions deployed during the 1991 Gulf War.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 31 Oct. 2026
But analysts say interventions like this may do little to arrest the persistent slide, amid weak consumer spending and concerns over a possible bursting of the AI bubble.

— John Liu, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2026

Definition of persistent

Adjective

Earlier this month, Full House alum Stamos posted a lengthy note on Instagram before the band’s show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville announcing that his longtime friend Love, 85, was struggling with a grave, unspecified health issue.

— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 29 Oct. 2026
Prosecutors urged a lengthy sentence based on Skroko’s criminal history and lack of remorse.

— Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of lengthy

Adjective

Like the rest of us, Pierce Brosnan has been following the seemingly endless and exhaustive search for the next James Bond.

— Wengel Gemu, Vanity Fair, 3 Nov. 2026
Voters have received endless campaign texts and mailers and spent months following the headlines on fiercely competitive state and local races.

— Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 3 Nov. 2026

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