belated
pronunciation
How to pronounce belated in British English:
UK [bɪˈleɪtɪd]
How to pronounce belated in American English:
US [bɪˈletɪd]
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- Adjective:
- after the expected or usual time; delayed
Word Origin
- belated (adj.)
- 1610s, "overtaken by night," past participle adjective from belate "to make late, detain," from be- + late. Sense of "coming past due, behind date" is from 1660s. Related: Belatedly.
Example
- 1. Are these trends a belated vindication of karl marx ?
- 2. They have welcomed blackberry 10 's belated arrival wholeheartedly .
- 3. So here 's a belated ' happy 50th birthday ' to b12 .
- 4. But the belated investigation has polarised a country already deeply divided by the past .
- 5. Yet in recent years the government had started a belated fight against corruption .