Word Meanings - TARDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. And check the tardy flight of time. Sandys. Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. Prior. 2. Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments.

Additional info about word: TARDY

1. Moving with a slow pace or motion; slow; not swift. And check the tardy flight of time. Sandys. Tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave. Prior. 2. Not being inseason; late; dilatory; -- opposed to prompt; as, to be tardy in one's payments. Arbuthnot. The tardy plants in our cold orchards placed. Waller. 3. Unwary; unready. Hudibras. 4. Criminal; guilty. Collier. Syn. -- Slow; dilatory; tedious; reluctant. See Slow.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TARDY)

• Dilatory
• Tardy
• procrastinating
• slow
• loitering
• behindhand
• lagging
• dawdling
• Late
• Slow
• tardy
• delayed
• advanced
• deceased
• past
• recent
• Remiss
• Slack
• careless
• negligent
• i attentive
• wanting
• flow
• slothful
• idle
• lax
• dilatory
• remissful
• Loose
• weak
• remiss
• backward
• indiligent
• Sluggish
• inactive
• Inert
• lazy
• unready
• late
• gradual
• tedious
• dull
• lingering
• slack

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TARDY)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to TARDY)

• REMISS
  Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow. Thou never wast remiss, I bear thee witness.
• REMISSLY
  In a remiss or negligent manner; carelessly.
• WANTLESS
  Having no want; abundant; fruitful.
• WANTON
  wanting , hence expressing negation + towen, p. p., AS. togen, p. p. of teón to draw, to educate, bring up; hence, 1. Untrained; undisciplined; unrestrained; hence, loose; free; luxuriant; roving; sportive. "In woods and wanton wilderness."
• CARELESSLY
  In a careless manner.
• REMISSORY
  Serving or tending to remit, or to secure remission; remissive. "A sacrifice expiatory or remissory." Latimer.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• RECENTNESS
  Quality or state of being recent.
• REMISSIVE
  Remitting; forgiving; abating. Bp. Hacket.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• WANTWIT
  One destitute of wit or sense; a blockhead; a fool. Shak.
• LINGERING
  1. Delaying. 2. Drawn out in time; remaining long; protracted; as, a lingering disease. To die is the fate of man; but to die with lingering anguish is generally his folly. Rambler.
• REMISSIBLE
  Capable of being remitted or forgiven. Feltham.
• INERTIA
  That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; - - sometimes called vis inertiæ. 2. Inertness;
• BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
  1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events;
• WANTONNESS
  The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness. Gower. The tumults threatened to abuse all acts of grace, and turn them into wantonness. Eikon Basilike. Young gentlemen would be as sad as
• LOITERER
  1. One who loiters; an idler. 2. An idle vagrant; a tramp. Bp. Sanderson.
• PROCRASTINATOR
  One who procrastinates, or defers the performance of anything.
• NEGLIGENTLY
  In a negligent manner.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• FORSLACK
  To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. Spenser.
• OVERLINGER
  To cause to linger; to detain too long. Fuller.
• ANGWANTIBO
  A small lemuroid mammal of Africa. It has only a rudimentary tail.
• AIR-SLACKED
  Slacked, or pulverized, by exposure to the air; as, air-slacked lime.
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.