prolonged

Speech parts

1. prolonged - Adjective

2. prolonged - Verb

4. prolonged - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Prolong

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

extended lengthy protracted lengthened drawn-out continued lasting sustained enduring elongated lingering time-consuming stretched out long-term long
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Antonyms

brief little short limited close FAST
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Phrases with the word

prolonged song prolonged memory prolonged period prolonged time prolonged duration prolonged way

Examples

Nothing destroys a person so much as prolonged inactivity. Aristotle

There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare. Sun Tzu

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. Milan Kundera

The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain. Cyril Connolly

The prolonged visit of no guest is pleasant. Latin Proverb

Prolonged endurance is what yields elderly maturity. Yoruba Proverb

Close letter words and terms

prolongational reduction prolonge prolonge knot prolonged abortion prolonged duration prolonged interrogation