long words
Multisyllabic lexical items
Long words are words with many letters or syllables.
The term is informal and relative—what counts as long depends on context.
In everyday speech, words beyond three syllables might seem long; in technical or academic writing, the threshold rises.
He liked to impress people with long words.
Using long words where short ones would do is often considered pretentious.
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