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tardy - 20 thesaurus results
Main Entry: tardy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: late
Synonyms: backward, belated, delayed, delinquent, dilatory, held up, hung up*, jammed, laggard, overdue, retarded, slack, slow, sluggish, behindhand, dawdling, detained, in a bind, loitering, not arrived, not done, procrastinating, strapped for time, too late, unpunctual
Antonyms: early, on time, prompt, punctual, ready
Main Entry: belated
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: late, slow
Synonyms: delayed, overdue, remiss, tardy, behind time, behindhand, long-delayed, unpunctual
Antonyms: early, on time, punctual, timely
Main Entry: delinquent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: irresponsible, defaulting
Synonyms: behind, blamable, blameworthy, careless, censurable, criminal, culpable, derelict, faulty, guilty, lax, neglectful, negligent, overdue, red-handed*, remiss, reprehensible, shabby, slack, tardy, unpaid, defaultant, disregardful, offending, procrastinating
Antonyms: careful, responsible, behaving
Main Entry: dilatory
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: procrastinating
Synonyms: backward, delaying, deliberate, laggard, late, lax, lazy, leisurely, neglectful, negligent, remiss, slack, slow, sluggish, tardy, unhurried, behindhand, dallying, lingering, loitering, moratory, putting off, snail-like, tarrying, time-wasting, unhasty
Antonyms: diligent, eager, enthusiastic, ready, zealous, hard-working
Main Entry: lazy
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: inactive, sluggish
Synonyms: apathetic, careless, comatose, dilatory, drowsy, dull, idle, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, languid, lethargic, lifeless, loafing, neglectful, passive, remiss, shiftless, slack, sleepy, slothful, slow, somnolent, supine, tardy, tired, torpid, trifling, unconcerned, weary, asleep on the job, dallying, flagging, lagging, languorous, out of it, procrastinating, slow-moving, snoozy, unenergetic, unindustrious, unpersevering, unready
Antonyms: active, diligent, energetic, industrious, lively, hard-working
Main Entry: overdue
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: late, behind schedule
Synonyms: belated, delinquent, due, held up*, hung up*, jammed*, mature, outstanding, owing, payable, tardy, unpaid, unsettled, behind time, behindhand, long delayed, not punctual, unpunctual
Notes: overdo means to do something to an excessive degree, while overdue means not paid at the scheduled time or past due
Antonyms: early, paid
Main Entry: reluctant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unenthusiastic, unwilling
Synonyms: afraid, averse, backward, calculating, cautious, chary, circumspect, diffident, discouraged, disinclined, hesitant, hesitating, indisposed, involuntary, laggard, loath, opposed, queasy, recalcitrant, remiss, shy, slack, slow, squeamish, tardy, uncertain, wary, demurring, disheartened, grudging, hanging back, uneager
Antonyms: anxious, eager, enthusiastic, ready, willing
Main Entry: remiss
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: careless, thoughtless
Synonyms: any which way, culpable, daydreaming, delinquent, derelict, dilatory, forgetful, heedless, inattentive, indifferent, indolent, lackadaisical, lax, lazy, neglectful, negligent, regardless, slack, slapdash, slipshod, sloppy, slothful, slow, tardy, uninterested, unmindful, any old way, asleep at switch, asleep on job, behindhand, defaultant, disregardful, fainéant, woolgathering
Antonyms: careful, mindful, scrupulous, thorough, thoughtful
Main Entry: late
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not on time
Synonyms: backward, behind, belated, blown*, delayed, dilatory, gone, held up, hung up*, jammed*, overdue, postponed, put off, remiss, slow, strapped*, tardy, behind time, behindhand, eleventh-hour, in a bind, in the lurch, lagging, last-minute, missed the boat, out of luck, stayed, too late, unpunctual
Antonyms: early, on time, prompt, punctual
Main Entry: slow
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: unhurried, lazy
Synonyms: apathetic, crawling, creeping, delaying, deliberate, dilatory, disinclined, dreamy, drowsy, easy, gradual, heavy, idle, imperceptible, inactive, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, laggard, leaden, leisurely, lethargic, listless, measured, moderate, negligent, passive, phlegmatic, ponderous, quiet, reluctant, remiss, slack, sleepy, slothful, sluggish, stagnant, supine, tardy, torpid, dawdling, lagging, loitering, plodding, postponing, procrastinating, slow-moving, snaillike, tortoiselike
Antonyms: active, busy, fast, hurried, quick, rapid
Main Entry: backward
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: bashful
Synonyms: afraid, averse, demure, diffident, disinclined, hesitant, hesitating, humble, indisposed, late, loath, modest, reluctant, reserved, retiring, shy, sluggish, tardy, timid, unwilling, wavering, uneager
Antonyms: aggressive, forward, precocious, unshy
Main Entry: behind
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: in debt; late
Synonyms: backward, belated, delayed, dilatory, laggard, overdue, slow, sluggish, tardy, behind schedule, behind time, behindhand, have to play catch up, in arrears
Antonyms: paid
Main Entry: long
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: interminable, excessive in length
Synonyms: boundless, delayed, diffuse, dilatory, dragging, late, lengthy, limitless, long-winded*, prolix, prolonged, slow, sustained, tardy, unending, verbose, wordy, diffusive, drawn-out, for ages, forever and a day, lingering, long-drawn-out, overlong, protracted, without end
Antonyms: ephemeral, evanescent, fleeting, short
Main Entry: slack
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lazy, negligent
Synonyms: careless, delinquent, derelict, dilatory, dormant, dull, idle, inactive, inattentive, indolent, inert, lackadaisical, lax, lethargic, neglectful, permissive, quiescent, quiet, regardless, remiss, slothful, slow, sluggish, stagnant, tardy, asleep on the job, behindhand, disregardful, easy-going, faineant, not busy, slow-moving
Antonyms: active, alert, disciplined
Main Entry: slow
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: behind, late
Synonyms: backward, belated, conservative, dead, delayed, dilatory, down, dull, gradual, inactive, low, moderate, off, overdue, prolonged, reduced, slack, sleepy, sluggish, stagnant, stiff, tame, tardy, tedious, uneventful, unproductive, behindhand, detained, draggy, hindered, impeded, lingering, long-delayed, long-drawn-out, protracted, time-consuming, unprogressive, unpunctual
Antonyms: on time, ready, on cue, waiting
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Main Entry: education
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
self, abecedarian, abiological, academic, accredited, acroatic, apt, basal, brought up at the feet of Gamaliel, chrestomathic, coeducational, collegiate, communicatory, decanal, didactic, didascalic, disciplinal, docile, doctrinal, donnish, educable, educational, educative, emeritus, expository, extracurricular, extramural, fledged, heuristic, in leading strings, inkhorn, instructive, intercollegiate, interscholastic, intramural, learned, misteaching, nod, polytechnic, postdoctoral, postgraduate, predoctoral, professorial, question, scholarly, scholastic, school, studious, tardy, taught, teachable, teaching, tenured, unedifying
Main Entry: lateness
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
backward, behindhand, belated, cunctative, delayed, dilatory, in abeyance, late, posthumous, slow, tardive, tardy, unpunctual
Main Entry: slowness
Part of Speech: noun1, noun2
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Adjectives:
bradypeptic, costive, creeping, deliberative, dilatory, easy, gentle, gradual, imperceptible, insensible, languid, latrede, leisurely, phlegmatic, slack, slow, slow, snail, tardive, tardy, testudineous
Main Entry: time
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
instant, short, Aprilian, Neolithic, acronical, actual, ago, ahead of time, all, alternate, ancient, annual, antiquated, antique, aoristic, aperiodic, archaic, around, atemporal, autumnal, belated, biannual, bicentennial, biennial, bimensal, bimillenary, bimonthly, bissextile, biweekly, brief, by turns, canicular, centennial, chronic, chronogrammatical, chronological, chronometrical, circadian, coeval, concurrent, constant, contemporaneous, contemporary, continual, continuous, current, cyclical, daily, dated, decennial, dendrochronological, diurnal, dominical, duodecennial, enneaeteric, ephemeral, equinoctial, erstwhile, estival, eternal, etesian, everlasting, every other, existing, fore, former, fortnightly, frequent, fugitive, genethliac, gnomonic, gumbled, hebdomad, hebdomadal, hebdomadary, hebetic, hibernal, hodiernal, horal, horary, hourly, immediate, immemorial, imminent, impermanent, infrequent, instantaneous, intercalary, interim, intermediate, intermittent, isochronal, last, last, last, lenten, lifelong, long, long, longstanding, matin, matinal, matutinal, menstrual, millenary, monthly, natalitious, new, night and day, nine, nocturnal, occasional, off, on time, ongoing, parmanent, part, penteteric, periodic, periodical, perpetual, plurennial, postpartum, preceding, prehistoric, preliminary, preprandial, present, present, previous, primaveral, primeval, prior, protracted, punctual, quadrennial, quarterly, quincentennial, quindecennial, quinquennial, quotennial, quotidian, rare, recent, recurrent, recurring, regular, regular as clockwork, remittent, remote, retrospective, rhythmical, round, seasonal, secular, seely, semiannual, semicentennial, semidiurnal, semimonthly, semipermanent, semiweekly, semiyearly, sempiternal, septennial, septimanal, serial, serotinal, sometime, sporadic, spur, stoundmeal, subsequent, successive, sudden, summary, tardy, temporal, temporary, terminal, tertian, that is, thitherto
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