Livelong – A whole or entire period of time, usually seeming to take a long time to reach the end

(Pronounced liv-long)

To remember the definition of the word livelong, use the following mnemonic:

The tortoise had lived a long (livelong) life of several hundred years! The eulogy took up the whole period of the funeral service, and it felt like it took a long time to reach the end.

Examples of livelong in a sentence

How would you feel with somebody breathing down your neck all the livelong day.

I have to tidy the whole house while he likes to fish all the livelong day.

I haven't slept this whole livelong night.