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say it: TAHR-dee
tardy is an adjective meaning "after the expected or usual time; delayed". It is pronounced /ˈtɑɹdi/ — TAHR-dee. It carries one recorded sense.
after the expected or usual time; delayed
“a belated birthday card”
“I'm late for the plane”
“the train is late”
“tardy children are sent to the principal”
“always tardy in making dental appointments”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tardy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.