tardiness

tardiness
n
lateness, slowness, dilatoriness, cunc-tation, Inf. pokiness; sluggishness, indolence, sloth, inertia, laziness, torpor; lethargy, languor; dawdling, fiddling around, Sl. screwing around, frittering away one's time; reluctance, hesitation, procrastination, putting off, temporizing, dragging one's feet; remissness, negligence, slackness, thoughtlessness; delay, deferment, postponement, prorogation.

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  • Tardiness — Tar di*ness, n. The quality or state of being tardy. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • tardiness — index delay Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • tardiness — n. tardiness in * * * [ tɑːdɪnɪs] tardiness in …   Combinatory dictionary

  • tardiness — tardy ► ADJECTIVE (tardier, tardiest) 1) delaying or delayed beyond the right or expected time; late. 2) slow in action or response. DERIVATIVES tardily adverb tardiness noun. ORIGIN Latin tardus slow …   English terms dictionary

  • tardiness — noun see tardy I …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • tardiness — See tardily. * * * …   Universalium

  • tardiness — noun a) The state or quality of being tardy. b) The result or product of being tardy. Syn: lateness Ant: punctuality …   Wiktionary

  • tardiness — Synonyms and related words: anachronism, antedating, anticipation, belatedness, earliness, eleventh hour, high time, historical error, last minute, late hour, lateness, metachronism, misdate, misdating, mistiming, parachronism, postdating,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • tardiness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. detention, slowness, delay; see lateness . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or condition of not being on time: belatedness, lateness. See TIME …   English dictionary for students

  • tardiness — tar·di·ness || tÉ‘rdɪnɪs / tɑː n. lateness; sluggishness, slowness …   English contemporary dictionary

  • tardiness — n. Slowness, dilatoriness, delay, slackness, lateness …   New dictionary of synonyms

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