long-form

adjective

ˈlȯŋ-ˌfȯrm 

variants or less commonly longform

: notably long in form in comparison to what is common or typical for works or content of a particular category

Making Michael Jackson's Thriller … spawned the long-form music video.

—Paul Taublieb

His compositions are long-form; by a comparative ratio to most piano players, there's not much soloing. Like good long-form structures, they don't always strike you as such; the written parts ease into solos without giving notice.

—Ben Ratliff

especially, journalism : covering a subject at much greater length and in much greater depth than a standard news article

Long-form and investigative stories were replaced by short, searchable bursts of information.

—Adam Weinstein

Mine was a world made new by memoir and biography, investigative journalism and longform essay.

—E. Ce Miller

see also:

short-form

Examples of long-form in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

As previously announced, the market is also Introducing the market’s first Creator Economy Summit, tapping into the move of digital content creators into long-form storytelling and film production. —Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 2 Apr. 2026

Four of Canneseries’ nine long-form main competition titles are from Scandinavia, two more from Spain’s Movistar Plus+. —Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 31 Mar. 2026

Others are long-form sets with less rules but still with a lot of structure. —Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 23 Mar. 2026

The long-form article shared by Sacks was authored by Jordan Schachtel, a conservative writer. —Jared Perlo, NBC news, 19 Mar. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1961, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for long-form

• brainstorm
• conform
• deform
• firestorm
• hailstorm
• inform
• landform
• lukewarm
• perform
• planform
• platform
• preform