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Behindhand vs Arear - What's the difference?

behindhand | arear |

As adverbs the difference between behindhand and arear

is that behindhand is belatedly, tardily while arear is backward; in or to the rear; behindhand.

As an adjective behindhand

is late, tardy, overdue.

As a verb arear is

to raise; to set up; to stir up.

behindhand

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Late, tardy, overdue.
  • *1975 , (Paul Fussell), The Great War and Modern Memory , OUP 2013, p. 148:
  • in debt, or in arrears

    • Derived terms

    * behindhandness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • belatedly, tardily
  • in debt, or in arrears

    • arear

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • backward; in or to the rear; behindhand
    • (Spenser)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To raise; to set up; to stir up.
    • (Webster 1913) ----