Definition of Prolonged

1. Adjective. Relatively long in duration; tediously protracted. "Protracted negotiations"

Exact synonyms: Drawn-out, Extended, Lengthy, Protracted
Similar to: Long
Derivative terms: Length, Lengthiness

2. Adjective. Drawn out or made longer spatially. "A prolonged black line across the page"
Exact synonyms: Elongated, Extended, Lengthened
Similar to: Long

Definition of Prolonged

1. Adjective. lengthy in duration; extended; protracted. ¹

2. Verb. (past of prolong) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prolonged

1. prolong [v] - See also: prolong

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prolonged

prologues
prologuing
prologuize
prologuized
prologuizes
prologuizing
prolong
prolongable
prolongate
prolongation
prolongational reduction
prolongational reductions
prolongations
prolonge
prolonge knot
prolonged
prolongedly
prolonger
prolongers
prolonges
prolonging
prolongingly
prolongings
prolongment
prolongments
prolongs
prolongued
prolotherapist
prolotherapists
prolotherapy

Literary usage of Prolonged

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1916)
""Friendship" complex, exposed by 4 words and 12 signs, as prolonged time, ... A " Love " complex, exposed by 6 words and 13 signs, such as prolonged time, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Prolonged cases demand forced feeding. Between attacks cold baths, tonics and various ... A prolonged and desperate struggle followed; and several times the ..."

3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1887)
"MELANCHOLIA DUE TO THE Prolonged USE OF MORPHINE. DR. SB LYON presented the history of a case of melancholia following the prolonged use of morphine for the ..."

4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1908)
"The dangers of such prolonged use were pointed out to her then and many times since, but any attempt even to change to ..."

5. The Philosophy of Education: Being the Foundation of Education in the by Herman Harrell Horne (1907)
"The period of human infancy is prolonged beyond that of any other creature. In the lowest organic forms birth is by partition of the parent, ..."

6. Bodily Changes in Pain, Hunger, Fear and Rage: An Account of Recent by Walter Bradford Cannon (1920)
"Fig. 12 demonstrates that the prolonged rise of the muscle record begins soon after this characteristic drop in blood pressure. ..."

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