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More protracted
Answer for the clue "More protracted ", 9 letters:
lengthier
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. 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" [syn: drawn-out , extended , prolonged , protracted ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (en-comparative of: lengthy)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lengthy \Length"y\ (-[y^]), a. [Compar. Lengthier (-[i^]*[~e]r); superl. Lengthiest .] Having length; rather long or too long; prolix; not brief; -- said chiefly of discourses, writings, and the like. ``Lengthy periods.'' --Washington. ``Some ...
Usage examples of lengthier.
Hosiah would even admit, quietly, to himself, that Patterson was his superior as a scholar of the Holy Word, due to his somewhat lengthier formal education, but of the two, Hosiah Jackson was marginally the better speaker, and so their relative talents played well off each other.
Those purposes, of course, turned on the truly thorough, long-term study of Mars, and included landings of auxiliary craft, for ever lengthier stays, all over the surface.