decade long
Lasting ten years
Decade long describes something lasting or spanning ten years: a decade-long friendship, a decade-long war.
The hyphenated form typically appears before a noun as a compound modifier.
Without the hyphen, the phrase works predicatively: The project was a decade long.
- sustainedKept up continuously
- chronologicalOrdered by time
- annualizedExpressed as yearly rate
- lastingContinuing through time
- staying powerCapacity to keep going
slow burn · decennial · milestone · anniversary · duration · decadal · economic cycle · protracted · epoch · extended · ten-year · ten year plan · historical analysis · generation · multiyear · interval · benchmark · timeline
decade longmomentary
Lasting very briefly
brief · instantaneous · fleeting · short-lived · quick
decade longephemeral
Lasting very briefly
transient · temporary · impermanent · transitory · fleeting
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