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lengthsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From length + -some.

Meanings

  1. Of significant length; long; lengthy.
    • […] and of course I planned a number of schemes for making it, when the time should come, duly effective and elegant. I pined to learn something of her during the lengthsome days of absence. 1869, The New Eclectic Magazine, volume 5, page 341:

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more lengthsome Degree=Cmp lexicographic
most lengthsome Degree=Sup lexicographic