What does livelong mean?
Livelong means Total, complete, whole..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Total, complete, whole..
I've been working on the railroad, all the livelong day.
How dreary to be somebody! / How public, like a frog / To tell your name the livelong day / To an admiring bog!
[…] so they might spend the livelong day as befitteth high holiday, in pleasure and action without care, and thereafter revel in the lofty presence chamber till night grew old with eating and drinking and all delight.
Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Thou hast built thyself a live-long monument.
Use livelong when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Livelong means Total, complete, whole..
Common synonyms include whole, orpine, live-forever, orpin.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
I've been working on the railroad, all the livelong day.
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