Hyphenation of extended

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word extended? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

ex-tend-ed

Definitions of extended:

1.	Relatively long in duration Tediously protracted A drawn-out argument An extended discussion A lengthy visit from her mother-in-law A prolonged and bitter struggle Protracted negotiations
2.	Fully extended or stretched forth An extended telescope His extended legs reached almost across the small room Refused to accept the extended hand
3.	Drawn out or made longer spatially Picasso's elongated Don Quixote Lengthened skirts are fashionable this year The extended airport runways can accommodate larger planes A prolonged black line across the page
4.	Beyond the literal or primary sense `hot off the press' shows an extended sense of `hot'
5.	Large in spatial extent or range or scope or quantity An extensive Roman settlement in northwest England Extended farm lands Surgeons with extended experience They suffered extensive damage

Synonyms of extended:

adj	drawn-out, lengthy, prolonged, protracted, long
adj	extended, outspread, spread, outstretched, sprawled, sprawling, sprawly, stretched, stretched out, rolled out, unrolled, spread-eagle, stretched
adj	extensive, wide, considerable
adj	elongated, lengthened, prolonged, long
adj	figurative, nonliteral
adj	extensive, large

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.