ahead of time, beforehand, checked, early, in abeyance, latish, moratory, parachronistic, retarded, sluggish
Definitionadj. after the expected or usual time
Last update: September 25, 2015
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He shows tardy progress in his work. [adjective]
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Our group was a little tardy to the gig, the pull of Manchester 's outstanding Deansgate Locks proved too alluring. [adjective]
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No one in his position has been so often, nor brought tardy parliamentarians back to their duties in Christmas week. [adjective]
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The elastic, light step of an Indian was gone, and in its place he was compelled to toil his tardy way over the ground, inch by inch. [adjective]
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"Well, you are a tardy messenger." [adjective]
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Lady Fareham's tardy answer was not encouraging. [adjective]
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Sometimes she had gone into the kitchen to administer a tardy rebuke to the cook. [adjective]
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Hence the advent, apparently tardy, of the Tacituses and the Juvenals; it is in the hour for evidence, that the demonstrator makes his appearance. [adjective]
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And also, their tardy slumbers, to some degree. [adjective]
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It always ends, it is true, in an awakening, but the awakening is tardy. [adjective]
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At last I looked up at the tardy speaker: he was looking eagerly at me. [adjective]
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