Long-drawn-out synonyms

lông'drôn'out', lŏng'-

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dragging
Extending tediously beyond a standard duration
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drawn-out
Protracted, made to take a longer period of time than necessary.
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lengthy
Long and overextended, especially in time rather than dimension
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long
(Prosody) Requiring a relatively long time to pronounce
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overlong
Excessively long:
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prolonged
Lengthy in duration; extended; protracted.
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protracted
Lasting for a long time or longer than expected or usual.
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excite (related)
Extending tediously beyond a standard duration
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Long-drawn-out Sentence Examples

  • Men and women of all ranks began to visit it; the emperor himself consented (f 887) to witness a performance by the great stars of the stage at the private residence of Marquis Inouye; a dramatic reform association was organized by a number of prominent noblemen and scholars; drastic efforts were made to purge the old historical dramas of anachronisms and inconsistencies, and at length a theatre (the Yurabu-za) was built on purely European lines, where instead of sitting from morning to night witnessing one long-drawn-out drama with interludes of whole farces, a visitor may devote only a few evening-hours to the pastime.

  • The result was a long drawn out interval, while the government held on and its supporters became more embittered over their differences.

  • Cynthia was already in bed, an impossibly fat book in her lap— probably a long drawn out saga where generations of dysfunctional families romp around history.

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