tardily

Questions about tardily

What does tardily mean?

tardily means "without speed (`slow' is sometimes used informally for `slowly')". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tardily?

tardily has 3 syllables: tar-di-ly. The stress falls on "tar".

What is another word for tardily?

Close synonyms include slowly, slow, easy, late, belatedly. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is tardily a common word?

tardily is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.