Behindhand

Definitions: Behindhand

Behindhand

Adjective

1. Behind schedule; "was behindhand with the rent".

Adverb

1. In debt; "he fell behind with his mortgage payments"; "a month behind in the rent"; "a company that has been run behindhand for years"; "in arrears with their utility bills".

Date "behindhand" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1700. (references)

Note: Behindhand \Be*hind"hand`\, adverb. adjective. [Behind hand.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Behindhand

Synonyms: behind (adv), in arrears (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Adversity	Adjective: unfortunate, unblest, unhappy, unlucky; improsperous, unprosperous; hoodooed; luckless, hapless; out of luck; in trouble, in a bad way, in an evil plight; under a cloud; clouded; ill off, badly off; in adverse circumstances; poor; behindhand, down in the world, decayed, undone; on the road to ruin, on its last legs, on the wane; in one's utmost need.
Lateness	Adjective: late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely; delayed, postponed; dilatory; (slow); delayed; Verb: in abeyance.
Nonpayment	Adjective: not paying, non-paying, non-performing; in debt; behindhand, in arrear, behind in payments, in arrears; beggared; (poor); unable to make both ends meet, minus; worse than nothing; worthless.
Shortcoming	Adverb: within the mark, within the compass, within the bounds; behindhand; re infecta; to no purpose; for from it.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Behindhand

English words defined with "behindhand": Aforehand, Arear ♦ behind ♦ Dilatory plea ♦ In arrear, in arrears. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	And their assembled friends being not a bit behindhand, roared out lustily.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	It was at this time that she began to get behindhand with the Thenardiers.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "behindhand": be behindhand ♦ be behindhand with smth.. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "behindhand"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		vonë (late), me vonesë (late), i vonuar (belated, blunt, delayed, detained, dilatory, late, latecomer, outstanding, overdue, slow, tardy). (various references)

Arabic		‏في حالة تأخر, ‏متأخرا (behind, behind the times, tardily), ‏متأخر (arrear, back, belated, late, outstanding, overdue, slow, tardy), ‏مدين (borrower, debit, debtor, liable), ‏تخلف في دفع الدين (be behind with). (various references)

Bulgarian		със закъснение (behind schedule, late), със задно число. (various references)

Czech		zaostalý (backward, subnormal, underdeveloped, undeveloped), opoždìný (backward, belated, delayed, late, tardy). (various references)

Finnish		olla jäljessä (be behindhand be in arrears), jäädä takapajulle (be left behind, get behindhand). (various references)

French		en retard sur les dettes, en retard dans mon travail, en retard (behind, behind the times). (various references)

German		verspätet (belated, belatedly, delayed, dilatory, is late, late, latish), im rückstand. (various references)

Greek		καθυστερημένοσ (behind, belated, deficient, late, overdue, retarded), αναχρονιστικόσ (anachronistic, old fashioned). (various references)

Hungarian		maradi (backward, hidebound, hide-bound, obscurantist, philistine, retrograde, stick in the mud), hátramaradt, hátralékos (back, outstanding, residuary), elmaradt (back, to be behind the times, underdeveloped). (various references)

Italian		in ritardo (behind, late, overdue), arretrato (arrear, arrearage, arrears, arrears of account, back, back-interest, backlock, backward, backwardly, outstanding, residue, stuffy, under developed, underdeveloped). (various references)

Pig Latin		ehindhandbay

Portuguese		vagaroso (easygoing life, leisurely, lingo, long-suffering, slow, sluggish, stalwart, stick in the mud, tardy), fora de moda (archaic, fashionable, obsolete, old, old fashioned, oldish, outdated, outmost, out-of-door, passe, square-toed, superannuated, unfashionable), atrasado (arrears of account, backward, behind schedule, behind time, belated, delayed, late, overdue, slow, tardy), atrás (aback, aft, after, afterwards, ago, back, behind, following, next, subsequently). (various references)

Romanian		întârziat (back, backward, be late, behind time, belated, benighted, lagging, late, outstanding, overdue, slow witted, tardy), înapoiat (back, backward), în urmã (aback, abaft, after, ago, back, backward, backwards, behind, in arrear of, slow), în întârziere (latish). (various references)

Russian		с запозданием, опоздавший (latecomer), задним числом. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zaostao (backward, backwater, benighted, dilatory, retarded, stagnant), zaostalo, zakasneo, zakasnelo. (various references)

Spanish		retrasado (belated, defective, delayed, lagged, late, retarded), con retraso (behind, overdue), atrasado (back, backward, backwardly, belated, late, mentally deficient, outstanding, overdue, retarded, slow, under developed). (various references)

Swedish		på efterkälken (outdistanced). (various references)

Thai		ชักช้า (costive), ค้างชำระเงิน. (various references)

Turkish		zamana ayak uyduramayan, yetişemeyen, geri kalan (remainder, the rest), geri kafalı (bigoted, hidebound, narrow minded, provincial, square-toed), gecikmiş (belated, delayed, late, past-due, tardy), geç kalan (late, unpunctual), arkada kalan. (various references)

Ukranian		із запізненням (behind time), що заборгував, відсталий (back, backward, benighted, retarded, stick in the mud, straggling, straggly, upstage), запізнілий (back, belated, late, overdue, retarded), заднім числом. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Behindhand" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bedingham. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-d-d-e-h-h-i-n-n"
	-3 letters: bandied.
	-4 letters: abided, baddie, banded, banned, behind, bidden, binned, dinned, handed, hidden.
	-5 letters: abide, aided, baned, benni, bided, dined, haded, henna, hided, inane, inned, nided.
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