All tardy synonyms
tar·dy
T t adj tardy
- late — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- long — having considerable linear extent in space: a long distance; a long handle.
- easy-going — calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.
- belated — A belated action happens later than it should have done.
- lazy — averse or disinclined to work, activity, or exertion; indolent.
- last-minute — the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken.
- moratory — authorizing delay of payment: a moratory law.
- in a bind — in a difficult situation
- backward — A backward movement or look is in the direction that your back is facing. Some people use backwards for this meaning.
- draggy — moving or developing very slowly.
- long-drawn-out — lasting a very long time; protracted: a long-drawn-out story.
- easy going — calm and unworried; relaxed and rather casual: an easygoing person.
- dilatory — tending to delay or procrastinate; slow; tardy.
- forever and a day — without ever ending; eternally: to last forever.
- diffusive — tending to diffuse; characterized by diffusion.
- delinquent — Someone, usually a young person, who is delinquent repeatedly commits minor crimes.
adjective tardy
- laggard — a person or thing that lags; lingerer; loiterer.
- discommodious — Not commodious; uncomfortable.
- loitering — to linger aimlessly or as if aimless in or about a place: to loiter around the bus terminal.
- woolgathering — indulgence in idle fancies and in daydreaming; absentmindedness: His woolgathering was a handicap in school.
- longwinded — Alternative spelling of long-winded.
- overdue — past due, as a delayed train or a bill not paid by the assigned date; late: two overdue library books.
- delayed — of or relating to a particle, as a neutron or alpha particle, that is emitted from an excited nucleus formed in a nuclear reaction, the emission occurring some time after the reaction is completed.
adv tardy
- in arrears — in arrears, behind or late, especially in payment: She was three months in arrears on her mortgage and credit card payments. Also, Chiefly Law, in arrear.
- behind — If something is behind a thing or person, it is on the other side of them from you, or nearer their back rather than their front.
- behind time — late
- behindhand — If someone is behindhand, they have been delayed or have made less progress in their work than they or other people think they should.