LONG-LIVED Synonyms: 103 Similar and Opposite Words

long-lived

adjective

ˈlȯŋ-ˈlivd

as in older

being of advanced years and especially past middle age that sequoia tree is especially long-lived, having reached an age generally estimated to be at least 3,000 years

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as in long

lasting for a considerable time much to the relief of his parents, the youth's interest in the piano proved to be long-lived

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Recent Examples of long-lived How the Fed responds to the threat of rising CPI, whether bond investors view inflation as temporary or long-lived, and whether inflation is a global or US-centric phenomenon will determine the performance of the various options. —

Garth Friesen, Forbes, 21 Dec. 2024 Seychelles giant tortoises average a 150-year life span, and related species can be similarly long-lived. —

Brian Handwerk, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024 There are dragons and trolls in Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, along with important swords and a race of long-lived elflike people called the Sithi, but Williams subverts the usual tropes. —

Sarah Jones, Vulture, 27 Nov. 2024 If successful, this process could deal with the americium that is the most dangerous and long-lived component of spent reactor fuel. —

IEEE Spectrum, 25 Nov. 2024 The Dead, in particular, would go on to have a fiercely devoted and long-lived fandom, even as the band didn’t enjoy the radio success of the Airplane or Big Brother until 1987’s surprise hit Touch of Grey. —

Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 Oct. 2024 The growth here in America seems to be more long-lived, as sales for the three-month period to the end of September 2024 set a new record in EV deliveries, adds Kelley Blue Book. —

Owen Bellwood / Jalopnik, Quartz, 15 Oct. 2024 The compound engine, as long-lived as a human heart, labouring in huge, tender, pumping motions—steel gymnastics—the aromas rising as if from a kitchen. —

Tomas Tranströmer, The New Yorker, 7 Oct. 2024 The final shot of the season settles just above the very recognizable ears and wispy white hairs of Yoda, long-lived enough to have seen the Republic at its height before its fall. —

Sarah Shachat, IndieWire, 17 July 2024

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The layers helped to create plenty of volume, with the longest of her spirals hitting the back of her neck and the shortest giving her the cutest curly bangs.

— Marci Robin, Allure, 31 Jan. 2025
What To Know The NOAA explains that atmospheric rivers are long, narrow bands in the atmosphere that transport large amounts of water vapor from the tropics.

— Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025