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Meaning of tardily

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  tardily
      adv 1: without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for
             `slowly'); "he spoke slowly"; "go easy here--the road is
             slippery"; "glaciers move tardily"; "please go slow so I
             can see the sights" [syn: {slowly}, {slow}, {easy},
             {tardily}] [ant: {apace}, {chop-chop}, {quickly},
             {rapidly}, {speedily}]
      2: later than usual or than expected; "the train arrived late";
         "we awoke late"; "the children came late to school"; "notice
         came so tardily that we almost missed the deadline"; "I
         belatedly wished her a happy birthday" [syn: {late},
         {belatedly}, {tardily}] [ant: {ahead of time}, {early}, {too
         soon}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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