elongated

1. 1.

   drawn out or made longer spatially

   “Picasso's elongated Don Quixote”

   “lengthened skirts are fashionable this year”

   “the extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes”

   “a prolonged black line across the page”

   Synonymsextendedlengthenedprolonged

   Similarlong
2. 2.

   having notably more length than width; being long and slender

   “an elongate tail tapering to a point”

   “the old man's gaunt and elongated frame”

   Synonymselongate

   Similarlong

Questions about elongated

What does elongated mean?

elongated means "drawn out or made longer spatially". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in elongated?

elongated has 4 syllables: e-lon-ga-ted. The stress falls on "lon". In IPA it is /ɪˈlɔŋɡeɪtəd/.

What is another word for elongated?

Close synonyms include extended, lengthened, prolonged, elongate. 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 elongated a common word?

elongated 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.