Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of considerable length, especially in time; extended.
- adjective Tediously long; drawn-out.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having length; long; especially, of great length; immoderately long, sometimes with the idea of tediousness attached: applied chiefly to discourses, writings, arguments, proceedings, etc.: as, a lengthy sermon; a lengthy dissertation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
long andoverextended , especially intime rather thandimension
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relatively long in duration; tediously protracted
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Examples
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Africa's economy, a process which he described as lengthy, requiring patience and application.
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He has now parted company with the APS after what he called lengthy consideration.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Philip Sherwell 2011
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Mason police arrested McSorley in February after what they described as a lengthy investigation.
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Mason police arrested McSorley in February after what they described as a lengthy investigation.
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Anna Rhodes changed her last name to match her partner's in what they described as a lengthy and cumbersome process.
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I might consider it the next time I happen to overhear my male colleagues engaging in lengthy, convoluted discussions regarding appropriate dress when appearing before female judges, much like the conversations my female colleagues and I have had over the years.
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Therefore the strength of the “entropic” attack is that it manipulates us to respond in lengthy and dry form.
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But the Applicants noted in lengthy submissions, invoking several cases including para. 41 of Irwin Toy Ltd.v. Quebec, [1989] 1 S.C.R. 927, indicating that expression has both content and form.
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The £7bn fairness package, drawn up in lengthy negotiations with the Treasury, will have three main elements:
Nick Clegg claims £5bn pupil premium is victory for Lib Dems Patrick Wintour 2010
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If customers can turn to the cloud for processing power on an as-needed basis, will they continue to lock themselves in lengthy contracts that leverage IBM's mainframe technology?
What The Cloud Above Obscures Inder Sidhu 2010
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