Usually means: Requiring a lot of hours.
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We found 18 dictionaries that define the word time-consuming:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. time-consuming: Merriam-Webster
  2. time-consuming: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. time-consuming: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. time-consuming, time-consuming: Collins English Dictionary
  5. time-consuming: Vocabulary.com
  6. time-consuming: Wordnik
  7. time-consuming: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. time-consuming: Wiktionary
  9. time-consuming: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. time-consuming: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. time-consuming: Dictionary.com
  12. time-consuming: FreeDictionary.org
  13. time-consuming: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. time-consuming: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. time-consuming: Rhymezone

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
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▸ adjective:  Using significant amounts of time, especially in an unwanted and sometimes unwarranted manner.

Similar:
strung out, expensive, long-winded, hourful, long, tedious, drawn-out, lengthy, protracted, monumental, more...

Opposite:
efficient, quick, fast, speedy, rapid

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Similar:
strung out, expensive, long-winded, hourful, long, tedious, drawn-out, lengthy, protracted, monumental, more...

Opposite:
efficient, quick, fast, speedy, rapid



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