What passes for leisure in our society is actually time-consuming.
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Time-consuming
Synonyms for "time-consuming" (4 found)
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Closest matches (1)
Adjective(1 words)
Strong matches (1)
Adjective(1 words)
Related words (2)
Adjective(2 words)
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1 entriesTranslations
36 translations across 27 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مُسْتَغْرِق وَقْتًا طَوِيلًا adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Belarusian
1 entries- які́ патрабу́е шмат ча́су adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 耗時的 /耗时的 adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
- 耗費時間的 /耗费时间的 adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Czech
1 entries- časově náročný adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Danish
2 entries- tidskrævende adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
- tidsrøvende adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Dutch
1 entries- tijdrovend adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Estonian
1 entries- aeganõudev adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Finnish
1 entries- aikaavievä adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
French
1 entries- chronophage adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
German
2 entries- zeitaufwendig adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
- zeitraubend adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Greek
1 entries- χρονοβόρος adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Hungarian
1 entries- időigényes adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Italian
2 entries- che richiede molto tempo adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
- dispendioso adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Japanese
1 entries- 時間のかかる adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Korean
2 entries- 많은 시간이 걸리다 adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
- 시간이 많이 걸리다 adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Lithuanian
1 entries- reikalaujantis daug laiko adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- tidkrevende adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
- tidskrevende adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Norwegian Nynorsk
2 entries- tidkrevande adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
- tidkrevjande adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Occitan
1 entries- cronofague adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Polish
1 entries- czasochłonny adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Portuguese
1 entries- moroso adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Romanian
2 entries- consumator de timp adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
- cronofag adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Russian
1 entries- тре́бующий мно́го вре́мени adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Spanish
1 entries- dispendioso adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Swedish
2 entries- tidskrävande adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
- tidsödande adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Ukrainian
1 entries- яки́й вимага́є бага́то ча́су adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Urdu
1 entries- وقت طلب adj (requiring significant amounts of time)
Sample sentences
12 total sentences available.
This is a very time-consuming task.
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It's time-consuming.
Source: tatoeba (1779910)
On the client side, very time-consuming operations should run asynchronously so as to avoid freezing the browser. The best example is the operation of Ajax.
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