Long
Long adjective - Primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified.
Usage example: long ago
Time-consuming and long are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Time-consuming" instead an adjective "Long".
Nearby Word: longed
Time-consuming
Time-consuming adjective - Of a task that takes time and patience.
Long and time-consuming are semantically related. You can use "Long" instead an adjective phrase "Time-consuming".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- diffuse and long
- diffuse and time-consuming
- boundless and long
- boundless and time-consuming
- slow and long
- slow and time-consuming
- tedious and long
- tedious and time-consuming
- lingering and long
- lingering and time-consuming
- dilatory and long
- dilatory and time-consuming
- tardy and long
- tardy and time-consuming
Both words in one sentence
- In order to get a comfortable high-class position in the bureaucracy, one had to take an extremely long and time-consuming set of exams.
Source: Achievement Test Of Destiny - Transformers Prime, as aired on The Hub, usually has long breaks between every 5 episodes or so, supposedly due to time-consuming animation.
Source: Short Run in Peru -
It's possible to do it the long way (see Sequence Breaking) and kill everyone in the building before planting it, but very difficult and time-consuming.
Source: Video Game / Perfect Dark
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Time-consuming and Long. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 16, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/long/time-consuming
Long & Time-consuming. N.p., 2016. Web. 16 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/long/time-consuming>.
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