Crossword clues for tardy
tardy
- Arriving after the school bell
- Late in arriving
- Late for school
- Late for class
- Illiciting stares from the punctual
- Slow in developing
- Punctual? No
- Needing a late pass
- Like late for showtime
- Late, on report cards
- Late to take the stage
- Late to school
- Late to class
- Late arriving
- Kim Zolciak "___ for the Party"
- Held up, perhaps
- Failing to beat the bell
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tardy \Tar"dy\, a. [Compar. Tardier; superl. Tardiest.] [F. tardif, fr. (assumed) LL. tardivus, fr. L. tardus slow.]
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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.
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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. Unwary; unready. [Obs.]
--Hudibras.-
Criminal; guilty. [Obs.]
--Collier.Syn: Slow; dilatory; tedious; reluctant. See Slow.
Tardy \Tar"dy\, v. t.
To make tardy. [Obs.]
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "slow," from Old French tardif "slow, late" (12c.), also the name of the snail character in the Roman de Renart, from Vulgar Latin *tardivus, from Latin tardus "slow, sluggish; late; dull, stupid," of unknown origin. Meaning "late" in English is from 1660s.\n\nThis word, not much used in English prose, is constantly employed in the U.S. and in Canada with reference to lateness in school-attendance.
[Thornton, "American Glossary," 1912]
\nRelated: Tardily; tardiness. Earlier form of the word in English was tardif, tardyve (late 15c.). Tardity "slowness of movement or action" is recorded in English from early 15c., from Old French tardete, from Latin tarditas.Wiktionary
1 late; overdue or delayed. 2 ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dullard. 3 Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift. 4 (context obsolete English) unwary; unready. 5 (context obsolete English) criminal; guilty. n. (context US English) A piece of paper given to students who are late to class. v
(context obsolete transitive English) To make tardy.
WordNet
Wikipedia
The surname Tardy has multiple origins. It is an old French family name. It may also refer to a number of families of Hungarian nobility: Tardy alias Lélek, Tardy alias Pap, Tardy alias Szeles, Tardy de Csaholy, Tardy de Kisár, Tardy de Kőröstopa et Mezőtelegd, Tardy de Tard.
The surname may refer to:
- Donald Tardy (born 1970), American drummer
- Gregory Tardy (born 1966), American jazz saxophonist
- Jacque Alexander Tardy (1767-1827), a French pirate
- James Tardy, (between 1773 and 1787 – 1835), an Irish naturalist
- John Tardy (born 1968), American singer
- Joshua Tardy, American politician
- Lionel Tardy (born 1966), French politician
- Louis-Marie-François Tardy de Montravel
- Marion Tardy, French water polo player
- Richard Tardy (born 1950), a French football manager
Usage examples of "tardy".
The victorious Robert reproached the tardy and feeble pursuit which had suffered the escape of so illustrious a prize: but he consoled his disappointment by the trophies and standards of the field, the wealth and luxury of the Byzantine camp, and the glory of defeating an army five times more numerous than his own.
Recognition passed between the faces of the false Abu and the faking fakir who had come to summon his tardy assistant.
Day, and the shine of the tardy sun reaches the fronts of the beetling castles, but scarcely descends far enough to touch the wavelets of the river winding leftwards across the many-leagued picture from Schaffhausen to Coblenz.
Titee was tardy again, and lunchless, too, and the next, and the next, until the teacher in despair sent a nicely printed note to his mother about him, which might have done some good, had not Titee taken great pains to tear it up on his way home.
Just in case his visitor was a tardy mutineer, he picked up the phaser he had acquired and nicked it into the palm of his hand.
The tardy podia swarmed up the laddered strands and into the confluence hole.
There were more than a score, tiny figures in grey, and they had dogs, and something expressing the smoke: an ironclad tower as tall as the tardy pulled by Remade horses.
He anticipated the hour of the attack, outstripped his tardy followers, and was pierced with a mortal wound, after he had slain with his own hand twelve of his boldest antagonists.
The second stall was empty, filled with fresh straw, ready for the brindled cow and her tardy calf.
In robust, plethoric females the menses are sometimes very tardy in their appearance, and every month the attempt to establish this function is attended with pain in the head, loins, and back, chilliness, nausea, and bloating of the abdomen.
With misshaped hands to his mouth the tardy gave a cry as base as animal pain.
I went on pettishly, thinking her rather tardy in obeying my wishes, at the same time wondering at her silence, for she was usually quite voluble.
Have you ever cursed and sworn at a potman or innkeeper for being tardy with fresh tankards of ale?
Theodoric was proclaimed by the Goths, with the tardy, reluctant, ambiguous consent of the emperor of the East.
Most beautiful picture of all, he sees them travelling schoolward by the late moonlight which now and again in the winter months precedes the tardy dawn.