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Using significant amounts of time, especially in an unwanted and sometimes unwarranted manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
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adjective satellite
Meaning 2
of a task that takes time and patience
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
36 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
مُسْتَغْرِق وَقْتًا طَوِيلًا
(mustaḡriq waqtan ṭawīlan)
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Belarusian:
які́ патрабу́е шмат ча́су
(jakí patrabúje šmat čásu)
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Chinese Mandarin:
耗時的 /耗时的
(hàoshí de)
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Chinese Mandarin:
耗費時間的 /耗费时间的
(hàofèi shíjiān de)
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Czech:
časově náročný
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Danish:
tidskrævende
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Danish:
tidsrøvende
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Dutch:
tijdrovend
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Estonian:
aeganõudev
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Finnish:
aikaavievä
— requiring significant amounts of time
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French:
chronophage
— requiring significant amounts of time
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German:
zeitaufwendig
— requiring significant amounts of time
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German:
zeitraubend
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Greek:
χρονοβόρος
(chronovóros)
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Hungarian:
időigényes
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Italian:
dispendioso
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Italian:
che richiede molto tempo
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Japanese:
時間のかかる
(jikan no kakaru)
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Korean:
많은 시간이 걸리다
(maneun sigan-i geollida)
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Korean:
시간이 많이 걸리다
(sigan-i mani geollida)
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Lithuanian:
reikalaujantis daug laiko
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Norwegian Bokmål:
tidkrevende
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Norwegian Bokmål:
tidskrevende
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
tidkrevjande
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
tidkrevande
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Occitan:
cronofague
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Polish:
czasochłonny
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Portuguese:
moroso
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Romanian:
consumator de timp
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Romanian:
cronofag
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Russian:
тре́бующий мно́го вре́мени
(trébujuščij mnógo vrémeni)
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Spanish:
dispendioso
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Swedish:
tidskrävande
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Swedish:
tidsödande
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Ukrainian:
яки́й вимага́є бага́то ча́су
(jakýj vymaháje baháto čásu)
— requiring significant amounts of time
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Urdu:
وقت طلب
(vaqt-talab)
— requiring significant amounts of time