Reverse Dictionary: TARDY

ADJECTIVES
► ASTERN OF THE LIGHTER ► ASTERN THE LIGHTER  tardy, late, behind, lagging behind → 1891 Amer. sl.
► BACK O’ BEHIND behindhand; tardy; late → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► BEHIND THE LIGHTER tardy, late, behind, laggardly → 1891 Amer. dial.
► CUNCTATIVE cautiously slow, tardy, dilatory, prone to or causing delay → 1617
► LAG belated, lingering behind, tardy, lagging → 1568
► LAGGED delayed, tardy → 1602 obs.
► LAGGIE ► LAGGY slow, tardy; lazy → 1897 Sc.
► LAISH slow, slack, tardy → 1700 Sc. obs.
► LATCHIE ► LATCHY slow, sluggish, tardy, dilatory → 1922 Sc.
► LATREDE slow, tardy → c897 obs.
► LENTITUDINOUS slow, tardy, sluggish → 1801
► LETSOME slow, tardy, sluggish → 1647 obs.
► LONGSOME tardy, slow, dilatory, sluggish → 1661-2 obs. exc. Eng. dial.  
► TARDIOUS tardy, slow → c1580 obs.

ADVERBS
► LATELY slowly, tardily, sluggishly; reluctantly, sparingly → c1000 obs.

NOUNS
► CUNCTATION  a delaying; delay, tardy action → 1585
► LATELINESS tardiness → a1340 obs.
► LENTITUDE slowness, sluggishness, tardiness → 1623
► LENTOR slowness, tardiness, sluggishness → a1763
► TARDITUDE slowness to act; tardiness, sluggishness; unwillingness → 1794

NOUNS – PERSON
► CUNCTATOR a person who acts tardily; a delayer → 1654

VERBS
► HANG A LEG to hesitate or hold back; to be reluctant or tardy; to loiter → 1883
► HANG AN ARSE to hesitate or hold back; to be reluctant or tardy; to loiter → 1596
► HANG THE GROIN to hesitate or hold back; to be reluctant or tardy; to loiter  → 1577-87
► TARDY to make tardy; to delay, to retard, to keep back → 1611 obs.