Meanings
- not comparableSomewhat long.
It was a longish time before I received a reply to my letter.
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1922, Rudyard Kipling, "A St. Helena Lullaby," lines 17-20, in Rudyard Kipling's Verse, Garden City: Doubleday, http://www.bartleby.com/364/294.html "How far is St. Helena from the Capes of Trafalgar?" / A longish way—a longish way—with ten year more to run. / It's South across the water underneath a falling star. / (What you cannot finish you must leave undone!)
She had a longish face scribbled all over with wrinkles.
1941, Emily Carr, chapter 16, in Klee WyckWas it possible to use a somewhat longish code name?
2007, Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society, page 117
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivesomewhat long
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longish. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/longish
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