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be·lat·ed
/
bɪˈleɪ
tɪd
/
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[
bih-
ley
-tid
]
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adjective
1.
coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time:
belated birthday greetings.
2.
late, delayed, or detained:
We started the meeting without the belated representative.
3.
Archaic.
obsolete; old-fashioned; out-of-date:
a belated view of world
politics
.
4.
Archaic.
overtaken by darkness or night.
Origin:
1610–20;
belate
to delay (
be-
+
late
) +
-ed
2
Related forms
be·lat·ed·ly,
adverb
be·lat·ed·ness,
noun
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belated
(bɪˈleɪtɪd)
—
adj
late or too late:
belated greetings
be'latedly
—
adv
be'latedness
—
n
belated
(bɪˈleɪtɪd)
—
adj
late or too late:
belated greetings
be'latedly
—
adv
be'latedness
—
n
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
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Word Origin & History
belated
1610s, "overtaken by night," pp. adj. from belate "to make late, detain," from
be-
+
late
. Sense of "coming past due, behind date" is from 1660s. Related: Belatedly.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Example sentences
Because blogging is becoming so popular, people are
belatedly
pondering its
economics.
Belatedly
resolving buyer's remorse by nonpayment is dishonorable.
Respondent has now
belatedly
moved to compel responses to these interrogatories.
Now before us is his motion for rule on clerk seeking to lodge the record
belatedly
.
Their wait is all the more painful because credit is,
belatedly
, tightening.
First, they are subject to a variety of measurement errors when units report their arrival on scene prematurely or
belatedly
.
Most of it will be supplied,
belatedly
, by the market itself-especially if it is bathed in the cleansing sunlight of transparency.
Pharmacology is fiercely, if somewhat
belatedly
, at work hunting new antimicrobial strategies.
The media, burned so often by techno-hype, are
belatedly
realizing that this time it's not all fantasy.
We have also come to value, sometimes
belatedly
, the benefits that the natural river habitat provides for fish and wildlife.
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