protractive
English
Etymology
protract + -ive
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -æktɪv
Adjective
protractive (comparative more protractive, superlative most protractive)
- Drawing out or lengthening in time; prolonging; continuing; delaying.
- Dryden
- He suffered their protractive arts.
- Dryden
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for protractive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)