overlong
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.13 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Too long, for an excessively long time.
Example Sentences
- "O, hold me not with silence over-long!"
- "As the Island Mindanao lies very convenient for Trade, so considering its distance, the way thither may not be over long and tiresome."
- "Many of the adults had been little apes during his boyhood. He had frolicked and played about this very jungle with them during their brief childhood. He wondered if they would remember him—the memory of some apes is not overlong, and two years may be an eternity to them."
- "So far as this particular service is concerned, there is an overlong interval between the arrival of the car-ferry in Calais at 3.45 p.m. and the departure of the Lyss train from Calais Ville at 6.30 p.m."
- "The next minute the little boy, still in his overlong trousers, was being dragged out of the house by the warden who had him by the ear."
- "[…] she casteth the rest into the fire, and there withall sodainely flings herselfe into it: Which is no sooner done, but the people cast great store of Faggots and Billets vpon hir, lest she should languish over-long […]"
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Germanic *uber Old English ofer- Middle English over- English over- English long English overlong From over- + long.
Inflected Forms
over-long (alternative)
more overlong (comparative)
most overlong (superlative)