drawn-out
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4.6
- adjective
- /drɔn aʊt/
- We had to sit through a drawn-out presentation that could have been summarized in ten minutes.
- drawn-out fight
- drawn-out process
- drawn-out conflict
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Watch on YouTubeThis is like a long drawn out recipe that I'm giving to you for free.
- This is like a long drawn out recipe that I'm giving to you for free.
- I I am not a believer in these long drawn out relationships.
- The sentence is so excruciatingly drawn out that no one could remember their meaning.
- It's not that they can't be a painfully long drawn out process.
- There wasn't a sense that this was going to be a long and drawn out campaign.
- And it was always like, like he was much darker back then, like serious dark, drawn out scenes, long stares.
- Would be better than like a long drawn out one.
- If it is a really long, drawn out, grandstanding showboating in a bar and I'm out, I'm out.
- Court legality lives on a drawn out process.
- So I kind of went in assuming that there would be like a lot of drama, a lot of just like drawn out yearning.
- I just like is so drawn out when the author like they're like, oh, this is in two weeks after train for this.
- Now it's like I can't be all of those things because it's that stage is drawn out so much that it beats up yourself esteem, if that makes sense.
Examples
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Getting approved for a loan was a very long and drawn-out process that took hours.
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As a people, Americans tend to be impatient and are quickly frustrated with long, drawn-out wars.
Academic text (1997) -
That gets drawn out longer and longer.
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So it's been like one really long drawn out spring break.
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This has been kind of a long and drawn out episode of my blog.
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Are you still watching these long drawn out makeup videos?
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Nowadays, it is a long, drawn-out process that takes up a lot of time and energy.
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A long, drawn-out Conclave would be seen by the media as proof that the Church is in crisis.
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So she appealed to the audience, and that's when things got drawn out and awkwardly funny.
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After a drawn-out debate, the Senate agreed, defeating an amendment to restore production.
Academic text (2010)
Synonyms
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1.0
Not interesting and making you feel tired or impatient
116
4.0
Lasting longer than usual
80
3.9
Continuing for a longer time than usual
78
4.4
Boring and repetitive, making you feel mentally tired
52
4.2
Needing a lot of time and patience
38
4.1
Making you bored, annoyed, or mentally tired
35
1.0
Making you feel tired after a lot of activity
30
6.6
Continuing for a long time, often longer than expected
18
5.8
Saying or writing more words than needed and taking too long
18
5.3
Something that is boring because it has no variety
13
7.5
Lasting a very long time and making you bored or annoyed
2
4.2
Longer than needed or wanted
Antonyms
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
drawn-out = draw (transparent) = out + drawn
Built from the phrasal verb 'draw out' meaning 'to extend or prolong', so the adjective meaning 'lasting longer than necessary' is directly related to the base phrase. [Postprocessing: moved 'out' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
Drawn-out comes from the parts draw meaning 'to pull' and out meaning 'away'. Imagine time being 'pulled out' like a piece of string until it becomes too long, so a drawn-out meeting is one that lasts longer than needed.