Antonyms of verb lengthen
2 senses of lengthen
Sense 1
lengthen -- (make longer; "Lengthen this skirt, please")
Antonym of shorten (Sense 1)
=> shorten -- (make shorter than originally intended; reduce or retrench in length or duration; "He shortened his trip due to illness")
Sense 2
lengthen -- (become long or longer; "In Spring, the days lengthen")
Antonym of shorten (Sense 4)
=> shorten -- (become short or shorter; "In winter, the days shorten")
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb lengthen
2 senses of lengthen
Sense 1
lengthen -- (make longer; "Lengthen this skirt, please")
=> increase -- (make bigger or more; "The boss finally increased her salary"; "The university increased the number of students it admitted")
Sense 2
lengthen -- (become long or longer; "In Spring, the days lengthen")
=> grow -- (become larger, greater, or bigger; expand or gain; "The problem grew too large for me"; "Her business grew fast")
Antonyms of adj lengthened
1 sense of lengthened
Sense 1
elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged -- (drawn out or made longer spatially; "Picasso's elongated Don Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this year"; "the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page")
INDIRECT (VIA long) -> short -- ((primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; "short skirts"; "short hair"; "the board was a foot short"; "a short toss")
Similarity of adj lengthened
1 sense of lengthened
Sense 1
elongated, extended, lengthened, prolonged -- (drawn out or made longer spatially; "Picasso's elongated Don Quixote"; "lengthened skirts are fashionable this year"; "the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes"; "a prolonged black line across the page")
=> long (vs. short) -- (primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified; "a long road"; "a long distance"; "contained many long words"; "ten miles long")
