protractedly
English edit
Etymology edit
protracted + -ly
Adjective edit
protractedly (comparative more protractedly, superlative most protractedly)
- In a protracted manner
- 2007 January 4, Andrew Adam Newman, “Catch the Next Chapter on Your iPod (It’s Even Cheaper)”, in New York Times[1]:
- (Book ads increasingly include “Also available as an audiobook,” which audio publishers, protractedly battling the belief that listeners are readers’ intellectual inferiors, consider a breakthrough.)
Synonyms edit
- abidingly, at length, enduringly; see also Thesaurus:lastingly