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chronophagous

Syllables: chro·no·phag·ous/kɹɒˈnɒ.fə.ɡəs/

chronophagous adjective: time-consuming.

Adjective

chronophagous (comparative more chronophagous, superlative most chronophagous)

  1. (rare) Time-consuming.
    • The method, however, cannot be considered strictly scientific and is much more tedious and chronophagous than the direct determination.1908, Harvey Washington Wiley, Principles and Practice of Agricultural Analysis; a Manual for the Study of Soils, Fertilizers, and Agricultural Products; for the Use of Analysists, Teachers, and...
    • As a chronophagous activity as it is, reducing the population's leisure budget, transports also imply a great expenditure of physical and nervous energy to the detriment of manpower's potentiality […]1978, Sorin M. Rǎdulescu, Viitorul Social: Revistǎ de Sociologie și Științe Politice [The Social Future: Journal of Sociology and Politicology], Bucharest: Academia Republicii Socialiste Romǎnia...

Examples of chronophagous in a sentence

  • Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in an Islamic Tradition1994, Aziz Al-Azmeh, “Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in an Islamic Tradition”, in Frank E....
  • They are conceived as supra-historical masses which speak in the tones of a chronophagous discourse.1996, Aziz Al-Azmeh, “Culturalism, Grand Narrative of Capitalism Exultant”, in Anindita Niyogi Balslev, editor, Cross-cultural Conversation...
  • Because modern life is chronophagous and resting necessary, we have invented hypnotherapy—apprenticeship while sleeping.2012 October 27, Stanislas Kraland, “The French already lacked sleep in 1962”, in The Huffington Post:
  • Though highly accurate, this method is chronophagous and expensive, making the large numbers of genes required for sequencing a challenge.2014, Daphne Karfunkel-Doron, Zippora Brownstein, Karen B. Avraham, “Genomic Applications in Audiological Medicine”, in Dhavendra Kumar...

Forms of chronophagous

comparativemore chronophagous
superlativemost chronophagous

Origin of chronophagous

From chrono- + -phagous.

Questions about chronophagous

What does chronophagous mean?
Chronophagous means time-consuming.
How do you use chronophagous in a sentence?
Chronophagous Discourse: A Study of Clerico-Legal Appropriation of the World in an Islamic Tradition
What part of speech is chronophagous?
Chronophagous is an adjective.
How do you pronounce chronophagous?
Chronophagous is pronounced /kɹɒˈnɒ.fə.ɡəs/ (UK).

Words near chronophagous in the dictionary

  1. chronopathically
  2. chronopathogenesis
  3. chronopathy
  4. chronophage
  5. chronophages
  6. chronophagous
  7. chronophagy
  8. chronopharmacodynamic
  9. chronopharmacodynamics
  10. chronopharmacokinetic
  11. chronopharmacokinetics

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