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TARDY (tardier, tardiest)
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, tardiest Dictionary entry overview: What does tardy mean?
• TARDY (adjective)
The adjective TARDY has 1 sense:
1. after the expected or usual time; delayed
Familiarity information: TARDY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Declension: comparative and superlative |
Superlative: tardiest
Sense 1
Meaning:
After the expected or usual time; delayed
Synonyms:
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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