Adjective(1) after the expected or usual time; delayed
(1) The High Court judge recently criticised the tardy process and said taxpayers were footing the bill, including legal costs in successful claims.(2) On one trip in Africa, a tardy photographer was left behind and had to catch us up in the next country.(3) The four AMCs have been tardy in valuing and auctioning off state assets, in large part due to the government's fear of selling them off on the cheap - especially to foreigners.(4) The company is responsible for the tardy roll-out of broadband services in Britain according to a report out today.(5) It can use fuelling trucks but the trucks delay flights because of tardy , lazy drivers.(6) Although the West Lothian club have hardly been tardy with their hiring and firing in the past, they could point to some significant mitigating factors in defence of their abject start to the season.(7) They're very strict about being absent and tardy .(8) So I beg your forgiveness for being tardy with mail.(9) The unions make a strong accusation that companies have been tardy when it comes to financial participation.(10) Students who are tardy to school for a third time receive $165 citations from Whittier, California, cops.(11) He praises the president for his action on Darfur, but laments the tardy and inadequate response to the overall situation.(12) She broke up with me via a tardy phone call and letter for my birthday in May 2004 (a month late) and I haven't spoken to her since.(13) I've been tardy in finishing the New York photo scansÔǪ be patient with meÔǪ they will come sooner or later.(14) A bankrupt political system has been a convenient peg on which to hang the blame for a consistently tardy response to humanitarian need.(15) Thanks for the email and sorry about tardy reply, just out of five weeks in Afghanistan where I'd no access to this email address.(16) The other upside was that any school official who called my house to ask why I was tardy got assurances from ÔÇÿmy momÔÇÖ that it was all her fault.
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Synonyms
Adjective
1. late ::
늦은
2. behind schedule ::
예정보다 늦게
3. running late ::
늦었
4. behind ::
뒤에
5. overdue ::
연체
6. belated ::
때늦은
8. slow ::
느린
9. dilatory ::
느린
Antonyms
1. breakneck ::
위험 천만의
2. brisk ::
활발한
3. dizzy ::
핑
4. fast ::
빠른
5. flying ::
나는
6. hasty ::
급한
7. lightning ::
번개
8. meteoric ::
유성의
9. quick ::
빨리
10. rapid ::
빠른
11. running ::
달리는
12. swift ::
빠른
Different Forms
tardily, tardy
Word Example from TV Shows
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Not "show up TARDY
and nevertheless be first-served."
The Big Bang Theory Season 9, Episode 23
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