prolonged
Something prolonged is long and drawn-out — it's taking longer than it should. A prolonged wait is usually annoying.
If a fan throws a drink on the court during a basketball game and it takes an hour to clean it up, and then another hour to re-wax the floor, and then another hour for the players to warm up again...that's a prolonged delay. Anything prolonged has been stretched out further than it should be. America's war with Vietnam was prolonged much longer than anyone expected. If something is tedious, time-consuming, and feels like it's taking forever, it's prolonged.
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relatively long in duration; tediously protracted“a prolonged and bitter struggle”synonyms: drawn-out, extended, lengthy, protractedlongprimarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified
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drawn out or made longer spatially“a prolonged black line across the page”synonyms: elongated, extended, lengthenedlongprimarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified
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In May of 1940, Nazi Germany launched a massive attack and swiftly conquered most of Western Europe. Britain suddenly found itself alone, facing a possible invasion by the powerful German military. On June 18th British Prime Minister Winston Churchill warned his nation of the dangers ahead and promised that, "if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"