prolonged

1. 1.

   relatively long in duration; tediously protracted

   “a drawn-out argument”

   “an extended discussion”

   “a lengthy visit from her mother-in-law”

   “a prolonged and bitter struggle”

   “protracted negotiations”

   Synonymsdrawn-outextendedlengthyprotracted

   Similarlong
2. 2.

   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”

   Synonymselongatedextendedlengthened

   Similarlong

Other forms of prolonged

comparative

prolongedder·

superlative

prolongeddest·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about prolonged

What does prolonged mean?

prolonged means "relatively long in duration; tediously protracted". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in prolonged?

prolonged has 2 syllables: prolon-ged. The stress falls on "ged". In IPA it is /pɹəˈlɔŋd/.

What is another word for prolonged?

Close synonyms include drawn-out, extended, lengthy, protracted, elongated. 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 prolonged a common word?

prolonged is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.