lateness

Roget category 133

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.2. Relative time

#133. Lateness

noun

lateness etc. adj. — tardiness etc. (slowness) 275.
delay, delation — cunctation, procrastination — deferring, deferral etc. v. — postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite, pause, reprieve, stay of execution — protraction, prolongation — Fabian policy, medecine expectante [Fr.], chancery suit, federal case — leeway — high time — moratorium, holdover.

verb

be late etc. adj. — tarry, wait, stay, bide, take time — dawdle etc. (be inactive) 683 — linger, loiter — bide one's time, take one's time — gain time — hang fire — stand over, lie over.
put off, defer, delay, lay over, suspend — table [Parl.] — shift off, stave off — waive, retard, remand, postpone, adjourn — procrastinate — dally — prolong, protract — spin out, draw out, lengthen out, stretch out — prorogue — keep back — tide over — push to the last, drive to the last — let the matter stand over — reserve etc. (store) 636 — temporize — consult one's pillow, sleep on it.
lose an opportunity etc. 135 — be kept waiting, dance attendance — kick one's heels, cool one's heels — faire antichambre [Fr.] — wait impatiently — await etc. (expect) 507 — sit up, sit up at night.

adjective

late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine^†, belated, postliminious^†, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely — delayed, postponed — dilatory etc. (slow) 275 — delayed etc. v. — in abeyance.

adverb

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.

phrase

nonum prematur in annum [Lat.] [Horace]; against the sunbeams serotine and lucent" [Longfellow]; ie meglio tardi che mai [It] — deliberando saepe perit occasio [Lat.] [Syrus].

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