Definitions for belated

belated be·lat·ed

Spelling: [bih-ley-tid]
IPA: /bɪˈleɪ tɪd/

Belated is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 181 anagrams from letters in belated (abdeelt).

Definitions for belated

adjective

  1. coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time:
  2. late, delayed, or detained:
  3. Archaic. obsolete; old-fashioned; out-of-date:
  4. Archaic. overtaken by darkness or night.

Origin of belated

1610-20; belate to delay (be- + late) + -ed2

Examples for belated

"Your thanks are belated," said the young man, with a visible attempt at gaiety.

But there is a belated wake-up among conservatives opposed to cannibalization.

But could this invoking of the words of the Godfather of Soul be a belated effort to inflate these flat polling numbers?

Rick Santorum, the (belated) winner in Iowa, who had been battling Gingrich for that distinction, is the unambiguous loser.

belated vacations and illness had depleted the training-school.

Some belated scrutiny of the congressional record that later earned him big bucks.

And still more of this belated spring will gladden the eye in the florist's window.

They had penetrated the mists of alcohol, and stirred a belated contrition.

Marrero—who only reached “The Show” as a belated 39-year-old rookie—always did possess an odd sense of timing.

The belated patients and pilgrims had arrived during this alert.

Word Value for belated
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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