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lateadjective not arriving, occurring, or settled at the due, usual, or proper timeI ran as fast as I could, but was still late for class behind, behindhand, belated, delinquent, latish, overdue, tardy delayed, detained, postponeddallying, dawdling, dilatory, dillydallying, dragging, laggard, lagging, poky(or pokey), slow, sluggish, unhurried early, inopportune, precocious, premature, unseasonable, untimely opportune, seasonable, timelyprompt, punctual having been such at some previous timethe late musical director said he would never have allowed such behavior while he was in charge erstwhile, former, old, once, onetime, other, past, quondam, sometime, whilom bygone, dead, defunct, departed, expired, extinct, gone, long-ago, vanished contemporary, current, extant, ongoing, present, present-daycoming, future, prospective, unborn no longer livingour late granduncle remembered us in his will asleep, breathless, cold, dead, deceased, defunct, demised, departed, fallen, gone, lifeless, low extinctdying, fading, moribundstillbornfinished, lapsed, terminatedinanimate, insensate, nonliving bitten the dust alive, animate, breathing, going, live, living, quick animateddynamic, lively, thriving, vibrant, vital, vivaciousactive, functioning, operative, running being far along in developmentlate impressionism gave rise to pointillism advanced, developed, evolved, forward, high, higher, improved, progressive, refined precociousfull-blown, full-fledged, full-scaleaged, grown, mature, matured, perfected, ripe, ripenedcivilized, educated, enhanced, enlightenedcontemporary, current, cutting-edge, latest, leading-edge, mod, modern, new, newest, newfangled, new-fashioned, novel, now, present-day, recent, space-age, supermodern, ultramodern, up-to-date backward, low, lower, nonprogressive, primitive, retarded, rude, rudimentary, undeveloped green, immature, underdeveloped, undersized(also undersize), underweight, unripe, unripenedsavage, uncivilized, uneducatedearly, embryonic, germinal, primeval, primordialantediluvian, antiquated, antique, dated, fusty, hoary, musty, Neanderthal(or Neandertal), obsolete, old, oldfangled, old-fashioned, old-time, out-of-date, outworn, passé, past after the due, usual, or proper timeshe has a habit of arriving late for everything belatedly, delinquently, tardily afterward(or afterwards), anon, eventually, later, latterly, subsequently, thereafterdilatorily, laggardly, pokily, slow, slowly, sluggishly beforehand, early, inopportunely, precociously, prematurely, unseasonably immediately, promptly, punctuallypronto, quickly, rapidly, snappily, speedily, swiftly not long agothe actress, late of New York but now of Los Angeles, is being eagerly sought for film roles freshly, just, lately, new, newly, now, only, recently latterly of late anciently ago, before, earlier, early, erstwhile, formerly, previouslyheretofore, hitherto adj.dead, defunct, deceased, departed, late mean devoid of life.dead applies literally to what is deprived of vital force but is used figuratively of anything that has lost any attribute (such as energy, activity, radiance) suggesting life.a dead, listless performance defunct stresses cessation of active existence or operation.a defunct television series deceased, departed, and late apply to persons who have died recently.deceased is the preferred term in legal use.the estate of the deceased departed is used usually as a euphemism.our departed sister late is used especially with reference to a person in a specific relation or status.the company's late president before the 12th century |