单词 | tardily |
释义 | tardily (once / 11879 pages) adv WORD FAMILY tardy: tardier, tardiest, tardily, tardiness+/tardiness: tardinesses USAGE EXAMPLESAs he tardily charged on that blitz, that ball suddenly appeared above his head, and the former high school basketball player leaped to tip it. Los Angeles Times(Nov 17, 2016) Too tardily William bent to catch it and had to get heavily down on his knees to retrieve it from under the settle. Elizabeth George Speare, The Witch of Blackbird Pond(1958) Runhappy was dazzling, too, in the Phoenix Stakes at Keeneland, where he broke tardily and trailed several fast rivals after a sixteenth of a mile. Washington Post(Oct 26, 2015) 1adv later than usual or than expected notice came so tardily that we almost missed the deadline Syn|Ant belatedly, late ahead of time, early, too soon before the usual time or the time expected 2adv without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly') glaciers move tardily Syn|Ant easy, slow, slowly apace, chop-chop, quickly, rapidly, speedily with rapid movements |
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