Belated

English

Adjective

Belated (comparative more Belated, superlative most Belated)

1. Later in relation to the proper time something should have happened.

   Happy belated birthday!

Synonyms

• tardy
• late

Verb

belated

1. Simple past tense and past participle of belate.

Thesaurus

antique, archaic, arrested, back, backward, behind time, behindhand, blocked, dated, delayed, delayed-action, detained, held up, hung up, in a bind, in abeyance, jammed, late, latish, moratory, never on time, obstructed, oldfangled, out of date, out-of-date, outdated, outmoded, overdue, passe, retarded, slow, stopped, tardy, unpunctual, unready, untimely

Translations

Adjective

later in relation to the proper time

Bulgarian: закъснял (bg), окъснял (bg) Czech: opožděný (cs) Estonian: hilinenud (et), hiline (et) German: verspätet (de), säumig (de)

Italian: tardivo (it) Norwegian: forsinket (no), på etterskudd (no) Portuguese: tardio (pt)

Derived terms

• belatedness

Anagrams

• bleated