tardiness (noun)

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• tardiness — tardy ► ADJECTIVE (tardier, tardiest) 1) delaying or delayed beyond the right or expected time; late. 2) slow in action or response. DERIVATIVES tardily adverb tardiness noun. ORIGIN Latin tardus slow …   English terms dictionary

• tardiness — noun see tardy I …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• tardiness — noun a) The state or quality of being tardy. b) The result or product of being tardy. Syn: lateness Ant: punctuality …   Wiktionary

• tardiness — noun the quality or habit of not adhering to a correct or usual or expected time • Ant: ↑punctuality • Derivationally related forms: ↑tardy • Hypernyms: ↑timing …   Useful english dictionary

• tardiness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. detention, slowness, delay; see lateness . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or condition of not being on time: belatedness, lateness. See TIME …   English dictionary for students

• tardy — I. adjective (tardier; est) Etymology: alteration of earlier tardif, from Anglo French, from Vulgar Latin *tardivus, from Latin tardus Date: 15th century 1. moving slowly ; sluggish < the tardy pace at which she was obliged to walk Charles… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• tardy — I UK [ˈtɑː(r)dɪ] / US [ˈtɑrdɪ] adjective Word forms tardy : adjective tardy comparative tardier superlative tardiest formal 1) slow to do something They have been rather tardy in responding to our request. 2) arriving late a tardy reply Derived… …   English dictionary

• tardy — adjective (tardier, tardiest) delaying or delayed beyond the right or expected time; late. ↘slow in action or response; sluggish. Derivatives tardily adverb tardiness noun Origin C16: from Fr. tardif, ive, from L. tardus slow …   English new terms dictionary

• tardy — adjective formal 1 done later than it should have been done: We apologize for our tardy response to your letter. 2 acting or moving slowly; sluggish tardily adverb tardiness noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• tardy — /ˈtadi / (say tahdee) adjective (tardier, tardiest) 1. moving or acting slowly; slow; sluggish. 2. late or behindhand. 3. delaying through reluctance. {Middle English tardive, from French, from Late Latin tardīvus, Latin tardus slow} –tardily,… …  

• tardily — tardy ► ADJECTIVE (tardier, tardiest) 1) delaying or delayed beyond the right or expected time; late. 2) slow in action or response. DERIVATIVES tardily adverb tardiness noun. ORIGIN Latin tardus slow …   English terms dictionary