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overlong
adjective as in long
Weak matches
- continued
- deep
- distant
- dragging
- drawn-out
- elongate
- elongated
- enduring
- enlarged
- expanded
- extensive
- far-off
- far-reaching
- faraway
- gangling
- great
- high
- lanky
- lasting
- lengthened
- lengthy
- lingering
- lofty
- long-drawn-out
- longish
- outstretched
- prolonged
- protracted
- rangy
- remote
- running
- spread-out
- spun out
- stretch
- stretched
- stretching
- stringy
- sustained
- tall
- towering
Example Sentences
“F1: The Movie” may be a thinly veiled, overblown, overlong vanity project, but it’s designed to waterboard viewers with Pitt’s panache until they relent, hoping that we, too, become so exhausted by its end that we can’t help but give in.
The film may be a thinly veiled, overblown, overlong vanity project, but it’s designed to waterboard viewers with Pitt’s panache until they relent, hoping that we, too, become so exhausted by its end that we can’t help but give in.
I wish the same could be said about his overlong dream-logic interludes, which tantalize as peeks into Frankie’s psyche but eventually feel like style filler.
The Hindustan Times newspaper called it a film grappling with "an identity crisis, an overlong run time and a confused mess of a script".
The momentum was frequently torpedoed by waffly, overlong video interludes - but Usher's magnetic stage presence just about held the concert together.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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