Word Meanings - PROTRACTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Prolonged; continued. Protracted meeting,a religious meeting continued for many successive days. -- Pro*tract"ed*ly, adv. -- Pro*tract"ed*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROTRACTED)

• Great
• Big
• wide
• huge
• numerous
• protracted
• excellent
• large
• immense
• bulky
• majestic
• gigantic
• vast
• grand
• sublime
• august
• eminent
• magnanimous
• noble
• powerful
• exalted
• noticeable
• Long
• Protracted
• produced
• dilatory
• lengthy
• tedious
• prolix
• extensive
• diffuse
• far-reaching

Related words: (words related to PROTRACTED)

• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• GRANDEUR
  The state or quality of being grand; vastness; greatness; splendor; magnificence; stateliness; sublimity; dignity; elevation of thought or expression; nobility of action. Nor doth this grandeur and majestic show Of luxury . . . allure mine eye.
• BULKY
  Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GRANDEESHIP
  The rank or estate of a grandee; lordship. H. Swinburne.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• POWERFUL
  Large; capacious; -- said of veins of ore. Syn. -- Mighty; strong; potent; forcible; efficacious; energetic; intense. -- Pow"er*ful*ly, adv. -- Pow"er*ful*ness, n. (more info) 1. Full of power; capable of producing great effects of any
• IMMENSENESS
  The state of being immense.
• GRANDMA; GRANDMAMMA
  A grand mother.
• GRANDUNCLE
  father's or mother's uncle.
• NOBLEWOMAN
  A female of noble rank; a peeress.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• PROLIXLY
  In a prolix manner. Dryden.
• EXALTMENT
  Exaltation. Barrow.
• PROTRACTIVE
  Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying. He suffered their protractive arts. Dryden.
• GRANDIFIC
  Making great. Bailey.
• NOBLE
  nobilis that can be or is known, well known, famous, highborn, noble, 1. Possessing eminence, elevation, dignity, etc.; above whatever is low, mean, degrading, or dishonorable; magnanimous; as, a noble nature or action; a noble heart. Statues,
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• GRANDILOQUENT
  Speaking in a lofty style; pompous; bombastic.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• INNUMEROUS
  Innumerable. Milton.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• SELF-AGGRANDIZEMENT
  The aggrandizement of one's self.
• PREEMINENT
  Eminent above others; prominent among those who are eminent; superior in excellence; surpassing, or taking precedence of, others; rarely, surpassing others in evil, or in bad qualities; as, preëminent in guilt. In goodness and in power preëminent.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• FOOL-LARGESSE
  Foolish expenditure; waste. Chaucer.