belatedly
Use Belatedly in a sentence
tɪd 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 obsolete; old-fashioned; out-of-date: a belated view of world politics.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.
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| —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 | |
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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.
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