long-drawn-out
[lawng-drawn-out, long-]
adjective
lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
of great length; long: a long-drawn-out line of soldiers.
RELATED CONTENT
How Long Should My Paragraph Be?There isn’t really a required number of sentences to make a paragraph, but there are some guidelines you might want to consider. A typical paragraph consists of 3 to 6 sentences. Paragraphs are meant to express a central idea. They can be made of any number of sentences as long as they meet the structural requirements. The basic structure of a paragraph has three parts: …
RELATED WORDS
boundless, delayed, diffuse, dilatory, dragging, drawn-out, late, lengthy, limitless, lingering, long-winded, overlong, prolix, prolonged, protracted, slow, sustained, tardy, unending, verbose
Nearby words
- long-coats,
- long-dated,
- long-day,
- long-day plant,
- long-distance,
- long-eared owl,
- long-faced,
- long-form,
- long-haul,
- long-headed
Also drawn-out, long-drawn.
Origin of long-drawn-out
First recorded in 1900–05
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019
Examples from the Web for long-drawn-out
long-drawn-out
adjective
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition
© William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012