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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
longish
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ an artist with longish red hair
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Flapper bathing beauties were well covered, including longish drawers and stockings.
▪ He has high cheekbones, and a longish nose.
▪ He is not much of a talker; a longish sentence for him is um, his standard reply to most questions.
▪ He wore a cap and a longish mac done up at the neck.
▪ The man with the guitar was dark and smooth-faced, with longish hair, a sensitive mouth.
▪ They look like crude, longish pine cones, with bracts clearly recognizable as modified leaves.
▪ Two negative reports, say, over a longish period of time...
▪ You may be able to accommodate this bending by tying in to a longish pergola or trellis on a wall or fence.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Longish

Longish \Long"ish\, a. Somewhat long; moderately long.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
longish

1610s, from long (adj.) + -ish.

Wiktionary
longish

a. Somewhat long.

WordNet
longish

adj. somewhat long

Usage examples of "longish".

As we rode up we could see a gunyah made out of boughs, and a longish wing of dogleg fence, made light but well put together.

Nor did you see John Reddy in his leather jacket and jeans, longish hair whipping in the wind, out there joking with his buddies.

His longish hair, in greasy quills, exuded a frank, pungent odor, sharp as that of his body.

Dad and I had our tea together pretty comfortable, and had a longish talk.

ABEL SANTE was thirty-five years old, with longish black hair, boyish good looks, and a beautiful girlfriend named Regina Becker, who was a painter, and a very good one, he thought.

Three stools sat unevenly on the stone floor, and a longish bench moldered into the ground outside the door.

He usually wears a battered old felt hat with gray locks of longish hair straggling from beneath its brim, and his eyes are such a dark gray they are almost black.

The guy was in the sloppy baggy pants a lot of kids were favoring at the moment, a huge T-shirt, the inevitable baseball cap on backward: a tall kid, maybe seventeen, eighteen years old, hatchet-faced, with a thin little excuse for a mustache just growing, his hair blond, longish, shoved back under the hat.

Short and round-faced, with longish, wispy white hair and neutral gray eyes set off by old-fashioned tortoiseshell, round-framed spectacles, Hoskinson presented a lot more of Bob Cratchit than he did James Bond.

His olive skin was set off by sparse gray-white hair, which he wore longish, so that it fell over his collar in back.

What Tom saw was a slightly pudgy, clean-shaven man of about forty or so with a square face and a full head of longish dark hair combed straight back.

He was not as tall as I am, with longish black hair and a sort of seductive petulance around his mouth.

France, to clap you for a longish moment in the waiting-room, idea of cooling your heels a little, for Verification of Identity.

His hair was longish and waved back from his face in no particular style.

His wavy hair, longish and curling down onto his neck, the well-defined brows and the distinctive mustache all appeared much blacker, and his brilliant eyes were like pieces of onyx in his tan face.