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tardy

[ tahr-dee ]

adjective

tardier, tardiest.
  1. late; behind time; not on time:

    How tardy were you today?

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  2. moving or acting slowly; slow; sluggish.
  3. delaying through reluctance.

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tardy

/ ˈ³ÙÉ‘Ë»åɪ /

adjective

  1. occurring later than expected

    tardy retribution

  2. slow in progress, growth, etc

    a tardy reader

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Derived Forms

  • ˈ³Ù²¹°ù»å¾±±ô²â, adverb
  • ˈ³Ù²¹°ù»å¾±²Ô±ð²õ²õ, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • ³Ù²¹°ù·»å¾±Â·±ô²â adverb
  • ³Ù²¹°ù·»å¾±Â·²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tardy1

First recorded in 1475–85; earlier tardive, tardif, from Old French, from unattested Vulgar Latin ³Ù²¹°ù»åÄ«±¹³Ü²õ, equivalent to Latin tard(us) “slow†+ -Ä«±¹³Ü²õ adjective suffix; -ive
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of tardy1

C15: from Old French tardif, from Latin tardus slow
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In the blurb to the exhibition, Wintour writes that she has “probably spent a year of my life waiting for fashion shows, which are famously tardy, to beginâ€.

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“The effort is praiseworthy, but so excessively tardy that it is perfectly useless,†a collective of linguists wrote in the Liberation newspaper on Thursday.

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The idea is to accommodate slow play after more than a quarter of PGA Tour events were unable to complete a round before darkness because play was tardy.

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Morrissey asserted that the tardy disclosure of the Teske rounds did not hamper Baldwin’s defense because his attorneys apparently knew about the ammunition before the trial.

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Even allowing for the delays caused by the weather, St Andrews’ unique double greens and shared fairways, such tardy pace of play undermined what should have been an extraordinary spectacle.

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