tardy
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From an earlier tardive, from French tardif, from Late Latin tardīvus, from Latin tardus (“slow”, “sluggish”), of obscure origin.
Inflected forms:
form: tardier
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: tardiest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: tardies
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Late; overdue or delayed.
pos: adj
examples: He yawned, then raised a tardy hand over his mouth.
When everything is ended, then you come. / These tardy tricks of yours will, on my life, / One time or other break some gallows’ back.
Men of genius anticipate their contemporaries, and know they are such, long before the tardy consent of the public.
As a matter of fact, the luncheon fare, when it made its tardy appearance, was distinctly unworthy of the reputation which the justly-treasured cook had built up for herself.
And the Black Muslims, along with many people who are not Muslims, no longer wish for a recognition so grudging and (should it ever be achieved) so tardy.
gloss: Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.
pos: adj
examples: […] fashions in proud Italy, / Whose manners still our tardy apish nation / Limps after in base imitation.
Nor should their Age by Yeares be told: / Whose Souls, more swift then Motion, clime; / And check the tardy Flight of Time.
In various Views she tries her constant Theme; / Finds him, in Councils, and in Arms, the same: / When certain to o’ercome, inclin’d to save; / Tardy to Vengeance; and with Mercy brave.
[…] a disease which medicine never cured, wealth never warded off, or poverty could boast exemption from; which sometimes moves in giant strides, and sometimes at a tardy sluggish pace, but, slow or quick, is ever sure and certain.
These berries […] are a deadly and insidious poison, though very tardy in their action, often lying dormant in the blood for many days.
After the introduction of the Highland Railway class, the progress of the 4-6-0 was tardy for some years.Then, when designers were increasingly turning to it as the answer to their growing motive power problems, production of 4-6-0s swelled into a flood tide.
And the youngest of the family
Is moving with authority
Building castles by the sea
He dares the tardy tide
To wash them all aside.
gloss: Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull.
pos: adj
examples: His tardy performance bordered on incompetence.
gloss: Unwary; unready (especially in the phrase take (someone) tardy).
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: Be not ta’en tardy by unwise delay.
Yield, Scoundrel base (quoth she) or die; / Thy life is mine, and liberty. / But if thou think’st I took thee tardy, / And dar’st presume to be so hardy, / To try thy fortune o’re afresh, / I’le wave my title to thy flesh,
gloss: Criminal; guilty.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
examples: And the Franks served the Men much the same ſauce when they found them tardy, and made them run their Heats through the Streets
gloss: A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.
pos: noun
tags: US
examples: The teacher gave her a tardy because she did not come into the classroom until after the bell.
gloss: An instance of a student's being marked as tardy by a teacher on the teacher's attendance sheet.
pos: noun
tags: US
Related words: tardy slip
Derived words: tardily
tardiness
tardity
tardyon
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