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Extending for a long distance or time, especially when tedious or wearisome; long-drawn-out, protracted; also, of speech or writing: unnecessarily verbose; long-winded.

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Meaning

  • [Adjective]
  • Extending for a long distance or time, especially when tedious or wearisome; long-drawn-out, protracted; also, of speech or writing: unnecessarily verbose; long-winded.
  • Not enjoyable or interesting; boring, dull.
  • Bleak, cheerless, dismal, dreary, miserable.
  • suitably serious or solemn
  • of a person: patient, stoic, tolerant, resolute
  • Slow, sluggish; specifically, of a person: tending to delay or procrastinate (especially when paying for something).
  • Of a person: having a dejected or serious appearance or mood; dour, gloomy, moody, morose, sullen.
  • Of a task: laborious, tedious, troublesome; hence, needing concentration to understand; intricate.
  • Chiefly of rain: without pause or stop; continuous, incessant.
  • Of weather: dreary, gloomy (cold, overcast, rainy, etc.).
  • (obsolete)
  • [Noun]
  • (countable, Northern England, North Midlands) A tedious or troublesome task; also, the most tedious or troublesome part of a task.
  • (uncountable, Scotland) Bleakness, gloom; specifically, gloomy (cold, overcast, rainy, etc.) weather.

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