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Definition of Belated
1. Adjective. After the expected or usual time; delayed. "Always tardy in making dental appointments"
Definition of Belated
1. a. Delayed beyond the usual time; too late; overtaken by night; benighted.
Definition of Belated
1. Adjective. Later in relation to the proper time something should have happened. ¹
2. Verb. (past of belate) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Belated
1. late or too late [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belated
Literary usage of Belated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz, Alexander John Ellis (1885)
"E'b 112 belated to с: с 386 A'b 112 6204 F 182 Я'b 316 С ... 3) Tlie Descending
Minor Scale : belated to F: с 204 Bb II2 At 386 F 386 с i82 ..."
2. Oxford Loose-leaf Surgery by F. F. Burghard, Allen Buckner Kanavel (1921)
"THE FATE AND VALUE OF belated OVARIES The only improvement of any importance made
in Baer's operation of subtotal hysterectomy concerns the ovaries. ..."
3. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1910)
"Late in August, accordingly, Major Rucker fas ordered to organize parties and
hasten with animals and ood to the aid of belated emigrants. ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"The evil beast had wished to frighten the belated wanderer ; and funeral procession
and priest, coffin, and grave had been erely the work of magic. ..."
5. A Florentine Cycle: And Other Poems by Gertrude Huntington (Boyce). McGiffert (1915)
"... THE belated CHRIST LONG the great God patient waited, Waited for the Christ
belated, For the Christ that was to be. Oft the heavens, sadly bending, ..."
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