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TARDY (tardier, tardiest)

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Irregular inflected forms: tardier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, tardiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does tardy mean? 

TARDY (adjective)
  The adjective TARDY has 1 sense:

1. after the expected or usual time; delayedplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


TARDY (adjective)

 Declension: comparative and superlative 
Comparative: tardier  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Superlative: tardiest  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


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)

Derivation:

tardiness (the quality or habit of not adhering to a correct or usual or expected time)


 Context examples 


But the fortune, which had been so tardy in coming, was his only one twelvemonth.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

At last I looked up at the tardy speaker: he was looking eagerly at me.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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