time-consuming

Speech parts

1. time-consuming - Adjective

2. time-consuming - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of a task that takes time and patience

Source: WordNet

Alternative names

time consuming

Synonyms

long involved extended hard slow considerable sustained demanding lengthy gradual prolonged intensive inefficient protracted cumbersome

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Antonyms

short limited better effective FAST easy

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Examples

One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy. E. B. White

People find life entirely too time-consuming. Stanisław Jerzy Lec

There are no insoluble problems. Only time-consuming ones. James A. Michener

Typing in all lowercase is popular among young people, SMS users, and anyone who feels literacy has become too time-consuming. Merlin Mann

There are many forms of love and affection, some people can spend their whole lives together without knowing each other's names. Naming is a difficult and time-consuming process; it concerns essences, and it means power. But on the wild nights who can call you home? Only the one who knows your name. Jeanette Winterson

Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming. Randall Terry

Close letter words and terms

time-bound program time-catcher time-constructible function time-consuming task time-consumingly time-controlled