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⏳ Lasting too long 🗣️ Spoken slowly
drawn-out

drawn-out

1 5.0
Said slowly with sounds made longer
  • adjective
  • /drɔn aʊt/
translation icon : arrastrado
  • In the past, I have tried to change the way I presented my writing, yet I kept going back to the lengthy, drawn-out, wordy posts.
  • slow and drawn-out
  • long and drawn-out
  • drawn-out vowels

Examples

  • The long, drawn-out negotiations in Westphalia heightened anticipation of the coming peace.

    Academic text (1993)

  • I could hear my voice relaxing into the rhythm of family, slower, vowels all drawn out.

  • It's not a long drawn out six month sales process with huge companies, but how it works.

  • By early August, the Red Army had stopped that roof in what had become a drawn out siege.

  • So we, we had this like picture in our mind that was like, oh, it was like this long drawn out thing of just us going back and forth.

  • And the sort of scare tactics that this is going to be a long drawn out multi year process is proving untrue.

  • My words are flat and muffled, each syllable drawn out and slow.

  • "Harry," Thomas said on a long, drawn-out sigh, subsiding back into the chair.

Synonyms

long
vsdrawn-out
  • Specialized
225 4.9

A vowel sound that lasts more than a short vowel

focuses on slow speech with vowels lengthened more than usual
protracted
vsdrawn-out
29 6.6

Continuing for a long time, often longer than expected

applies to general time length rather than specific vowel stretching
long-winded
vsdrawn-out
18 5.8

Saying or writing more words than needed and taking too long

is spoken slowly with vowels stretched rather than being wordy

Antonyms

quick
  • Informal
130 1.0

Happening or done without any delay

concise
37 4.2

Using few words to give important information clearly

How Long

interminable
13 7.5
drawn-out
1 5.0
extended
11 4.0
lengthy
109 3.5

Surface Forms

drawn-out positive

Morphology

drawn-out = draw (transparent) = out + drawn

Formed from the phrasal verb 'draw out' (draw + out) meaning 'prolong', so learners who know the components and the participle form can infer the adjective. [Postprocessing: moved 'out' from base_words to prefix]

Etymology

Drawn-out comes from the parts draw meaning 'to pull' and out meaning 'away'. Imagine a voice being 'pulled out' like a piece of string so the sound lasts longer, so a drawn-out way of speaking has slow, stretched vowels.