At Length

Definition: At Length

At Length

Adverb

1. After a long period of time or an especially long delay; "at length they arrived".

2. In a lengthy or prolix manner; "the argument went on lengthily"; "she talked at length about the problem".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: At Length

Dissertation

Verb: expound upon a subject, dissert upon a subject, descant upon a subject, write upon a subject, touch upon a subject; treat a subject, treat a subject thoroughly, treat of a subject, take up a subject, ventilate a subject, discuss a subject, deal with a subject, go into a subject, go into a subject at length, canvass a subject, handle a subject, do justice to a subject.

Lateness

Adverb: late; lateward, backward; late in the day; at sunset, at the eleventh hour, at length, at last; ultimately; after time, behind time, after the deadline; too late; too late for.

Length

Adverb: lengthwise, at length, longitudinally, endlong, along; tandem; in a line; (continuously); in perspective.

Loquacity

Verb: be loquacious; Adjective: talk glibly, pour forth, patter; prate, palaver, prose, chatter, prattle, clack, jabber, jaw; blather, blatter, blether; rattle, rattle on; twaddle, babble, gabble; outtalk; talk oneself out of breath, talk oneself hoarse; expatiate; (speak at length); gossip; (converse); din in the ears; (repeat); talk at random, talk nonsense; be hoarse with talking.

Speech

Hold forth; make a speech,.deliver a speech; Noun: speechify, harangue, declaim, stump, flourish, recite, lecture, sermonize, discourse, be on one's legs; have one's say, say one's say; spout, rant, rave, vent one's fury, vent one's rage; expatiate; (speak at length); speak one's mind, go on the stump, take the stump.

Crosswords: At Length

Somewhere in Central Africa. Here, at length, is the witch doctor and his USA airplane, the P-40 or "steam-chicken" as the bushmen call it. Civilization advances into the inner sanctums of the medicine men, and penetrates the Dark Continent, which for hun. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The bonds of this subjection are like the swaddling clothes they art wrapt up in, and supported by, in the weakness of their infancy: age and reason as they grow up, loosen them, till at length they drop quite off, and leave a man at his own free disposal. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

But, given ages and ages more, surely all created reasons would at length reach the same dead level of satiety

At length it broke upon his listening ear.

But this long debt of confidence, due from me to him, whose bane and ruin I have been, shall at length be paid

At length, the convict raised his eyes to heaven, and took a step forward

We came at length to the house, which was indeed a noble structure, built according to the best rules of ancient architecture

The faintest assured objection which one healthy man feels will at length prevail over the arguments and customs of mankind

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

They may talk at length about a favorite subject or repeat a word or phrase many times. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

However, during the campaign, the FPI complained that Guei was granted more than the allotted 5 minutes on television daily; he and his wife's activities were broadcast at length. (references)

Human Rights

Indonesia

They claimed that after several days in solitary confinement they were driven to different locations and interrogated at length about their organization's activities, finances, and aims. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "at length": go into a subject at length ♦ speak at length ♦ talk at length. Additional references.

Albanian

gjerësisht (broadly, extensively, generally, popularly, widely). (various references)

Bulgarian 

подробно (in and out, in detail, in full, intimately, minutely, narrowly, particularly). (various references)

Finnish

vihdoin (at last, eventually, finally, in the end, ultimately), pitkälti (a long way, far), pitkällään (a long way, far). (various references)

German

schließlich (after all, eventual, Eventually, final, finally, in the end, lastly, ultimately). (various references)

Greek 

διεξοδικά. (various references)

Hebrew 

ארוכות (lengthily). (various references)

Hungarian

végülis. (various references)

Italian

dilungarsi (amplify, dwell, lengthen, talk at length). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

軈て (before long, soon), 倩 (attentively, carefully, deeply, profoundly), やって来る (at last, to come along, to come around, to turn up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つらつら (attentively, carefully, deeply, profoundly), せ�" (attentively, beam, before, boastfully usurping, boil down, broil, carefully, choice, clip, compilation, cork, deeply, editing, fire, former, gland, hermit, hundredth of a yen, late, line, old, parch, precedence, previous, priority, profoundly, roast, selection, snip, stopcock, stopper, the future, thousand, wire, wizard), やがて (before long, soon), やっと (at last). (various references)

Manx

fy yerrey (at last, eventually, finally, in conclusion, lastly, ultimately), er liurid (lengthways, longways), ec y jerrey (aft, finally). (various references)

Pig Latin

atay engthlay.(various references)

Russian 

наконец (at last, finally, lastly), подробно (circumstantially, in detail, minutely, narrowly). (various references)

Swedish

omsider (at last). (various references)

Turkish

ayrıntılı olarak (at large, in detail, lengthily, particularly), uzun uzadıya (at great length, at some length, diffusive, fully, in detail, lengthily), enine boyuna (fully, in extenso), en sonunda (after all, at last, finally, ultimately). (various references)

Welsh

bellach (now). (various references)

aliquando, copiose, demum, demus, demusque, prolixius, tandem. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gantlet.

-2 letters: gelant, hantle, latent, latten, length, talent, tangle, thenal.

-3 letters: agent, aglet, angel, angle, glean, laten, lathe, latte, leant, neath, tenth, thane, thegn, theta.

-4 letters: ante, eath, egal, elan, etna, gaen, gale, gane, gate, gelt, gent, geta, ghat, glen, gnat, haen, haet, hale, halt, hang, hant, hate, heal, heat, hent, lane, lang, late.

+2 letters: alightment, ethylating.

+3 letters: alightments, glutathione, methylating.

+4 letters: glutathiones, hesitatingly, shatteringly, snaggleteeth, snaggletooth, stringhalted, ultraheating.

+5 letters: lightfastness, thanatologies, threateningly.