Usually means: Extended in duration or size.
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We found 25 dictionaries that define the word lengthy:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. lengthy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lengthy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lengthy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lengthy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lengthy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lengthy, lengthy: Wordnik
  7. lengthy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lengthy: Wiktionary
  9. lengthy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lengthy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lengthy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Lengthy, lengthy: Dictionary.com
  13. lengthy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Lengthy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. lengthy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. lengthy: Rhymezone
  17. Lengthy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. lengthy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. LENGTHY: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. lengthy: Free Dictionary
  21. lengthy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. lengthy: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lengthy: Legal dictionary

(Note: See lengthier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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adjective:  Having length; long and overextended, especially in time rather than dimension.
adjective:  Speaking or writing at length; long-winded.

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