What's the difference between longish and overlong?
Longish
Definition:
(a.) Somewhat long; moderately long.
Example Sentences:
(1) Stage A5 is the adult stage, with a longish, rectangular area covered by hair of a density and texture found in adults.
(2) I dare say it’ll swing back again, because these things do, over the course of hopefully a longish career.
(3) In this case, he doesn't, he hits a long-but-not-that-longish fly to end the inning.
(4) Autogenic spongiosa proved to be best suitable for soft-tissue repair in cases of non-segmental defects, whereas structured corticalis worked better as a transplant for somewhat stretched and longish segmental defects.
(5) One patient had a giant cell tumour of the tendon sheath which was moderately echogenic in appearance, one had carpal tunnel syndrome and a ganglion-like finding at US, one had tenosynovitis and negative US and one had a prominent tendon due to postoperative sequelae, with US showing a longish echo-poor lesion.
(6) It's a longish (15-page) submission that is worth reading in full.
(7) Based on a close reading of tsar history since 1918 and taking in various business tsars, drugs tsars, youth tsars, community tsars along the way, this latest tsar is going to have a brief frenzy of activity, maybe an interview or two, and then a longish period when the tsar realises that he or she doesn't have any constituency, no locus and hence very little effectiveness.
(8) Hydrangeas and white candles appear everywhere, as do reassuring white men with longish grey hair and white linen shirts unbuttoned to the solar plexus.
(9) The cells become a longish dense shape with enclosed vesicles and dense structures, there structural elements cannot be more diagnosed.
(10) In many cases which previously did not appear to be amenable to treatment it is today possible to preserve the damaged teeth at least over a longish period.
(11) After a longish interval he produced the biblical fantasia The Rape of Tamar (1970).
(12) During the first postnatal years, protruding, large ears, full periorbital tissue, and thick septum and alae nasi were the most characteristic phenotypic findings, while after approximately 6 years of age a longish face with full lips and prominent maxilla and mandible became more distinct.
(13) The new species is characterized by the following features: mouth succer larger than acetabulum or nearly of the same size; integument spines ("cuticular" spines) single; ovary with 5-6 short branches, which divide into more or less short broad lobes; testes larger than ovary with 5-6 simple or polymorphic lobes; eggs longish-ovoid, shell thin and uniform in thickness; surface undulated.
(14) Lymph nodes involved in malignant disease appeared globular, whereas those involved in inflammatory disease showed a longish and flattened shape.
(15) In thinly crowded parts of the turbinalia the olfactory cells are mostly differentiated in pericaryon, dendrit, neck and capitulum, whereas in the densely crowded ethmoturbinale there are 4 zones of pericaryons one above the other, there is no neck, the capitula are longishly formed and mostly lie in the epithelium.
(16) It is clearly delimited and can be divided into a longish pars lateralis and a spherical pars medialis.
Overlong
Definition:
(a. & adv.) Too long.
Example Sentences:
(1) Our investigations indicate that the diffuse and focal forms of persistent hepatitis can remain unchanged overlong periods and the same histological findings over a number of years.
(2) The critics have raved about Amour : to some it is a "beautifully calculated demise" or "old age that refuses to be swept under the carpet and mindlessly 'othered' "; to others it shows "Haneke's flair for the emotionally brutal" and is an "overlong unblinking meditation on life's last act".
(3) The current university-only route is overlong, expensive and inefficient and denies some of the best potential nurses a place in this most vital profession, drawing instead only on graduates, some of whom clearly have the wrong training and mindset.
(4) Cher's right about Burlesque – an overlong potboiler that also starred Christina Aguilera, it wasn't even camp enough to be fun.
(5) Soccer, that international sport, has been attempted and is making some inroads, but it is classed, in the main, along with overlong loaves of bread and soft cheese in the general American Consciousness.
(6) The mechanism of concealed conduction due to overlong propagation within the reentry loop is discussed.
(7) What ensued was an overlong and dysfunctional standoff between the football program and student affairs officials with the president positioned somewhere between the two sides,” the report said.
(8) The Duke of Edinburgh, an old Naval hand, appeared to revert to some salty language during an overlong photocall at events to mark the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Britain.
(9) In addition to offering specialist services, such as anaesthesiological therapy, and such services as may be in keeping with the local situation, such departments should be engaged in research, and towards the provision of preoperative anaesthesiological management prior to admission, on behalf of patients undergoing surgery of choice, so as to cut down the overlong period of preoperative stay.
(10) We would refuse point blank to cut the script down to its proper length, so we'd end up with shows that were overlong.