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 anime-style drawing depicts a girl sporting long blue hair — and a purple sweater, of course.

— Erin Clack, People.com, 19 Jan. 2025
Biden oversaw the end of the longest war in U.S. history in August 2021, pulling troops out of Afghanistan in line with a deal struck with the Taliban by the first Trump administration.

— David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025