Tardy

Definition: Tardy

Tardy

Adjective

1. After the expected or usual time; delayed; "a belated birthday card"; "I'm late for the plane"; "the train is late"; "tardy children are sent to the principal"; "always tardy in making dental appointments".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tardy" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Synonyms: Tardy

Lateness

Adjective: late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely; delayed, postponed; dilatory; (slow); delayed; Verb: in abeyance.

Slowness

Adjective: slow, slack; tardy; dilatory; (inactive); gentle, easy; leisurely; deliberate, gradual; insensible, imperceptible; glacial, languid, sluggish, slow paced, tardigrade, snail-like; creeping; Verb: reptatorial.

Crosswords: Tardy

I need you to be quiet, Tardy! (Greg the Bunny; writing credit: Francesco Barilli)

Was I? So I'm the tardy one? (The Cable Guy; writing credit: Lou Holtz Jr.)

Those who are tardy do not get fruit cup. (High Anxiety; writing credit: Mel Brooks; Ron Clark)

The Tardy Cannon Ball (1914)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• And the Tardy Bell Rings (reference)

• Here Comes Tardy Toad (Miss Gator's Schoolhouse) (reference)

• International Hallmarks on Silver Collected by Tardy (reference)

• Nate the Great and the Tardy Tortoise (Nate the Great (Paper)) (reference)

  (more book examples)

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This always ends, it is true, by an awakening, but a tardy one.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "tardy": be tardy ♦ tardy reply. Additional references.

Afrikaan

laat (allow, late, leave, let, release). (various references)

Albanian

i vonuar (behindhand, belated, blunt, delayed, detained, dilatory, late, latecomer, outstanding, overdue, slow), i vonë (belated, late, latter, recent), i ngadalshëm (mild, plodding, slow), i avashtë (dull, slow, sluggish). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متأخر (arrear, back, behindhand, belated, late, outstanding, overdue, slow), ‏غير مكترث (indifferent, nonchalant, not aware, not to care a hanging), ‏غير مبالي (brittle), ‏بطىء (cumbersome, dilatory, heavy, indolent, languid, lazy, lento, slow, slow motion). (various references)

Bulgarian 

разтакаващ се, колеблив (backward, doubtful, dubious, faltering, fitful, halting, hesitant, hesitating, infirm, irresolute, labile, pendulous, queasy, rickety, rocky, tentative, vacillating, versatile, wavering, wobbly, yo-yo), отлагащ (fabian), муден (backward, bovine, costive, dilatory, floppy, inactive, inert, laggard, languid, long, phlegmatic, slothful, slow, sluggish, stagnant, sulky, sullen, supine), закъснял (back, belated, delayed, dilatory, lag, late, overdue), бавен (creeping, deliberate, dense, dilatory, languid, leaden, leisurely, lingering, long, lumpish, pernickety, plodding, slack, slow, sluggish, stagnant, stopping, tardigrade, unready). (various references)

Chinese 

�"慢. (various references)

Czech

zdlouhavý (circuitous, endways, lengthy, long, tedious), pozdní (belated, late, serotinous), pomalý (largo, lingering, slow), opoždìný (backward, behindhand, belated, delayed, late), liknavý (dilatory, easygoing). (various references)

Danish

sen (late, time-consuming). (various references)

Dutch

vergevorderd (late, old), laat (late, let). (various references)

Esperanto

malfrua (late). (various references)

Faeroese

seinur (late). (various references)

Farsi 

کندرو (Lazy), کند (Ballast, Blunt, Dilatory, Dull, Haunt, Heavy, Late, Lazy, Leaden, Slack, Slow, Sluggish, Unapt, Unready), تنبل (Idle, Inactive, Indolent, Laze, Lazy, Lazybones, Sloth, Slothful, Slouch, Slow, Sluggish), سست (Atonic, Effeminate, Feckless, Floppy, Frail, Groggy, Inactive, Indolent, Insecure, Languid, Lax, Lethargic, Loose, Mild, Rattletrap, Remiss, Rickety, Shaky, Slack, Sleazy, Slender, Slothful, Supine, Tepid, Torpid, Weak), دیراینده (Late), دیر (Abbey, Cloister, Convent, Late, Long, Monastery), دارای تاخیر. (various references)

Finnish

vitkallinen (dilatory, slow), hidas (dilatory, leisurely, slow). (various references)

French

tardif (tardive), nonchalant, lent. (various references)

German

langsam (about time, adagio, dilatory, dull, laggard, lazy, lingering, slow, slowly, sluggish, tardily), spät (belated, late, tardily). (various references)

Greek 

βραδύσ (adagio, largo, leisurely, lento, slack, slow, sluggish), βραδυκίνητοσ (laggard, sloughy, slow moving, slow witted). (various references)

Hebrew 

משת�"�" (dilatory), מפ�'ר (laggard, retarded, retrograde, slow), מאחר (laggard, late, latecomer, overdue, slowcoach), אטי (pokey, slow). (various references)

Hungarian

lusta (idle, indolent, laggard, lazy, shiftless, slothful, sluggard, sluggish), lassú (adagio, dawdling, deliberate, leisurely, moderate, ooze, pokey, poky, slow, sluggish, to go at a walk, to jog along, to move at a walk). (various references)

Indonesian

lambat (dilatory, slow). (various references)

Italian

tardo (belated, dull, lagging, late, slow, thick). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

遅遅たる (lagging, slow), もし可能ならば (all the way, awfully, bashfully, be restless, completely, desperately, dishevelled, erection, farther, feel fuzzy, feel impatient, feel sad, fidget, flying squirrel, frightfully, gusto, hazy, hesitantly, if possible, impatient, inefficient, irritating, is something that, is that which, Japanese mafia, longer, misty, more, mumble, not quick enough, shaggy, slow, someone full of zest, swelling, tantalizing, the "tent" an erection makes against pants or bedsheets, to do something the speaker regrets, to squirm, tousled, unkempt, violently, women's work pants, worry about, Yakuza). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

もどかしい (feel impatient, irritating, not quick enough, tantalizing), ちちたる (lagging, slow). (various references)

Korean 

늦은. (various references)

Manx

moal (backward, belated, decrepit, deliberate, deplorable, dim, disappointing, dull, enfeebled, feeble, flimsy, gradual, ill, laggard, late, late of fruit, listless, meagre, overdue, pithless, poor, poorly, scraggy, slack, slow, sorry, tawdry, unimpressive, weak, weak as faith, wretched, wretched of thing), anmagh (belated, late, overdue). (various references)

Norwegian

sen (late). (various references)

Papiamen

lat (late). (various references)

Pig Latin

ardytay.(various references)

Polish

późny. (various references)

Portuguese

tardio (lag, late, serotinous, slow, tardive). (various references)

Romanian

tardiv (belated, belatedly, late, latish, tardily), târziu (late), apatic (apathetic, apathetical, apathetically, indifferent, indolently, insensible, lackadaisical, lackadaisically, languid, languidly, listless, moony, sleepy, sluggish, supine, torpid), întârziat (back, backward, be late, behind time, behindhand, belated, benighted, lagging, late, outstanding, overdue, slow witted), încet (at a slow pace, dawdling, dead alive, deliberate, dilatory, dull, dull-headed, easy, faint, gentle, hist, lagging, lazily, lazy, leasurely, leisurely, lingering, low, slack, slow, slow but steady, slowly, sluggish, soft, still, time-taking, weak). (various references)

Russian 

запоздалый (belated, overdue). (various references)

Scottish

fadalach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zakasneli (belated, late), zadocneli (late, overdue), spor (bovine, contest, controversy, dilatory, laggard, lazy, litigation, logy, poky, quarrel, slow, sluggish, unhurried). (various references)

Spanish

tardío (backward, belated, late). (various references)

Sranan

lati (late). (various references)

Swedish

senkommen, senfärdig (remiss), långsam (dull, gradual, inert, languid, lingering, slow, sluggish). (various references)

Tagalog

hulí (late). (various references)

Thai

เชื่องช้า (คำโบรา�"หรือใช้ในเชิงวรร�"กรรม), สาย (late). (various references)

Turkish

yavaş (gingerly, languishing, largo, leisurely, lingering, not fast, poco, slow, slowly, slowspeed), gecikmiş (behindhand, belated, delayed, late, past-due), geç kalmış (belated, overdue), geç (backward, behind, late, slow). (various references)

Ukranian 

загайний, запізнений (overdue). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trễ (behind), thiếu khẩn trương, chậm chạp (bovine, inert), đ� đẫn muộn. (various references)

Welsh

hwyrfrydig (backward, reluctant, slow). (various references)

Zulu

-phuzileyo (late). (various references)

sera, seraian, seram, seras, sereser, seri, seris, sero, serus, tardus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tardy": tardyon, tardyons. (additional references)

Words ending with "tardy": bastardy, custardy, mustardy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tardy" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: mardy, nardy, Otard, pardy, taddy, tadly, tadre, tady, tagry, tairy, tamry, tandy, tanry, taory, tard, tarda, tarde, tardis, tardys, tarey, tarid, tarmy, tarray, tarty, tarvy, tary, taryn, taudy, terd, tird, togrday, torda, travy, trd, tryd, turd, turdy. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: arty, dart, drat, dray, trad, tray, yard.

-2 letters: art, day, dry, rad, rat, ray, rya, tad, tar, try, yar.

-3 letters: ad, ar, at, ay, ta, ya.

+1 letter: datary, drafty, tawdry.

+2 letters: aridity, daystar, dietary, gyrated, hydrant, hydrate, lyrated, satyrid, strayed, tanyard, tardily, tardyon, thready, tragedy.

+3 letters: acridity, additory, adroitly, adultery, ardently, aroynted, auditory, banditry, bastardy, betrayed, birthday, boatyard, caryatid, cityward, custardy, daystars, dilatory, dotardly, draftily, draughty, dynatron, estrayed, gadgetry, hydranth, hydrants, hydrated, hydrates, hydrator, idolatry, intraday, martyred, mustardy, pedantry, podiatry, rabidity, rapidity, satyrids, sudatory, tanyards, tardyons, tawdrily, tiltyard, towardly, ultradry, yattered.

+4 letters: absurdity, admiralty, adulatory, adversity, anhydrite, arytenoid, bastardly, birthdays, boatyards, budgetary, bystander, caryatids, cordately, courtyard, damnatory, dastardly, daydreamt, daytrader, dehydrate, depravity, deviatory, diathermy, dietarily, dignitary, disparity, dithyramb, dryasdust, drysalter, dynamiter, dynamotor, dynatrons, feudatory, gravidity, hydranths, hydrating, hydration, hydrators, laudatory, mandatary, mandatory, martyrdom, mediatory, mordantly, mydriatic, outprayed, outwardly, pederasty, portrayed, predacity, predatory, radiantly, radiately, rancidity, rehydrate, relatedly, sedentary, steelyard, stockyard, taxidermy, thyroidal, tiltyards, verdantly, yardstick, yesterday.

+5 letters: acidimetry, adherently, adjuratory, admonitory, advertency, amendatory, anhydrites, arytenoids, assertedly, audiometry, auditorily, bardolatry, botryoidal, bystanders, caryatides, cordiality, courtyards, creditably, cybernated, daytraders, dedicatory, defamatory, dehydrated, dehydrates, dehydrator, depilatory, depositary, derogatory, dictionary, dilatorily, dithyrambs, divinatory, dramaturgy, dryasdusts, drysalters, drysaltery, durability, dynamiters, dynamotors, dysarthria, hereditary, hydrations, hydropathy, indicatory, inundatory, judicatory, karyotyped, martyrdoms, martyrized, moderately, modularity, modulatory, mydriatics, obdurately, overstayed, radiolytic, radiometry, rehydrated, rehydrates, repeatedly, roadworthy, solidarity, standardly, steelyards, stockyards, storyboard, switchyard, syndicator, toroidally, tyrannised, tyrannized, undulatory, untowardly, yardmaster, yardsticks, yesterdays.

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