lengthsome

English

Etymology

From length + -some.

Adjective

lengthsome (comparative more lengthsome, superlative most lengthsome)

  1. Of significant length; long; lengthy.
    • 1869, The New Eclectic Magazine - Volume 5 - Page 341:
      [] 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.
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