drag on

1. 1.

   last unnecessarily long

   Synonymsdrag out

   Broaderlast
2. 2.

   proceed for an extended period of time

   “The speech dragged on for two hours”

   Synonymsdragdrag out

   Broaderproceed

Questions about drag on

What does drag on mean?

drag on means "last unnecessarily long". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for drag on?

Close synonyms include drag out, drag, drag out. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is drag on a common word?

drag on is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.