BELATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does belated mean? 

• BELATED (adjective)
  The adjective BELATED has 1 sense:

1. after the expected or usual time; delayed

  Familiarity information: BELATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BELATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

After the expected or usual time; delayed

Synonyms:

belated; late; tardy

Context example:

always tardy in making dental appointments

Similar:

unpunctual (not punctual; after the appointed time)

 Context examples 

We could not doubt that justice, if belated, had come at last.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Beyond lay another dull wilderness of bricks and mortar, its silence broken only by the heavy, regular footfall of the policeman, or the songs and shouts of some belated party of revellers.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes made no further allusion to the matter that day, though he sat lost in thought for a long time after our belated dinner.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A belated gig was coming at full gallop down the road which led from the south, and a few pedestrians were still trailing up from Crawley, but nowhere was there a sign of the missing man.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As this horse approached, and as I watched for it to appear through the dusk, I remembered certain of Bessie's tales, wherein figured a North-of-England spirit called a Gytrash, which, in the form of horse, mule, or large dog, haunted solitary ways, and sometimes came upon belated travellers, as this horse was now coming upon me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

For my own part, I had been so struck by the furious manner in which these belated travellers were approaching, that I had continued to watch them with all sorts of vague hopes within me, which I did not dare to put into words for fear of adding to my uncle’s disappointments.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At first the steps of a few belated villagers, or the sound of voices from the village, lightened our vigil, but one by one these interruptions died away, and an absolute stillness fell upon us, save for the chimes of the distant church, which told us of the progress of the night, and for the rustle and whisper of a fine rain falling amid the foliage which roofed us in.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie's evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of belated travellers.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)