Being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time.

Roget 360: dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct; late, gone, no more; exanimate^†, inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; departed this life etc. v.; dead and gone; dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost^†, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits; launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead.    dying etc. v.; moribund, morient^†; hippocratic; in articulo, in extremis; in the jaws of death, in the agony of death; going off; aux abois [Fr.]; one one's last legs, on one's death bed; at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp; near one's end, given over, booked; with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave.    stillborn; mortuary; deadly etc. (killing) 361.    ... show more

After the expected or usual time; delayed:
— A belated birthday card.
— I'm late for the plane.
— The train is late.

synonyms: belated, tardy.

Roget 133: late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine^†, belated, postliminious^†, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely; delayed, postponed; dilatory etc. (slow) 275; delayed etc. v.; in abeyance.    ... show more

Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time:
— A late development.
— Their late quarrel.

synonym: recent.

Roget 122: past, gone, gone by, over, passed away, bygone, foregone; elapsed, lapsed, preterlapsed^†, expired, no more, run out, blown over, has-been, that has been, extinct, antediluvian, antebellum, never to return, gone with the wind, exploded, forgotten, irrecoverable; obsolete etc. (old) 124.    former, pristine, quondam, ci-devant [Fr.], late; ancestral.    foregoing; last, latter; recent, over night; preterperfect^†, preterpluperfect^†.    looking back etc. v.; retrospective, retroactive; archaeological etc. n.. ... show more

Roget 123: new, novel, recent, fresh, green; young etc. 127; evergreen; raw, immature, unsettled, yeasty; virgin; untried, unhandseled^†, untrodden, untrod, unbeaten; fire-new, span-new.    late, modern, neoteric, hypermodern, nouveau; new-born, nascent, neonatal [Med.], new-fashioned, new-fangled, new-fledged; of yesterday; just out, brand-new, up to date, up to the minute, with it, fashionable, in fashion; in, hip [Coll.]; vernal, renovated, sempervirent^†, sempervirid^†.    fresh as a rose, fresh as a daisy, fresh as paint; spick and span.    ... show more

Having died recently.

Of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages.

At or toward an end or late period or stage of development:
— The late phase of feudalism.
— A later symptom of the disease.
— Later medical science could have saved the child.

synonym: later.

used especially of persons Of the immediate past:
— Our late President is still very active.

synonyms: former, previous.

Polish: wcześniejszy, uprzedni, poprzedni, były

Later than usual or than expected:
— The train arrived late.
— We awoke late.
— The children came late to school.
— I belatedly wished her a happy birthday.

synonyms: belatedly, tardily.

Roget 133: late; lateward^†, backward; late in the day; at sunset, at the eleventh hour, at length, at last; ultimately; after time, behind time, after the deadline; too late; too late for etc. 135.    slowly, leisurely, deliberately, at one's leisure; ex post facto; sine die.    ... show more

To an advanced time:
— Talked late into the evening.

synonym: deep.

At an advanced age or stage.

In the recent past:
— Lately the rules have been enforced.
— As late as yesterday she was fine.
— Feeling better of late.

synonyms: lately, latterly, of late, recently.