Tardy vs Foreslow - What's the difference?
tardy | foreslow |
Late; overdue or delayed.
ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dullard.
Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.
* Sandys
* Prior
(obsolete) Unwary; unready.
(obsolete) Criminal; guilty.
(US) A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.
(obsolete) To make tardy.
(obsolete) To be slow or tardy; to slow down.
* 1662 Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Dialogue Two)
(obsolete) To slow, hinder, delay, impede.
* Fairfax
In obsolete|transitive|lang=en terms the difference between tardy and foreslow
is that tardy is (obsolete|transitive) to make tardy while foreslow is (obsolete|transitive) to slow, hinder, delay, impede.As verbs the difference between tardy and foreslow
is that tardy is (obsolete|transitive) to make tardy while foreslow is (obsolete|intransitive) to be slow or tardy; to slow down.As an adjective tardy
is late; overdue or delayed.As a noun tardy
is (us) a piece of paper given to students who are late to class.tardy
English
Adjective
(er)- He yawned, then raised a tardy hand over his mouth.
- His tardy performance bordered on incompetence.
- Check the tardy flight of time.
- tardy to vengeance, and with mercy brave
- (Hudibras)
- (Collier)
Synonyms
* (l), (l)Usage notes
* The term suggests habitual lateness. * Somewhat dated in the United Kingdom.Noun
(tardies)- The teacher gave her a tardy because she did not come into the classroom until after the bell.
See also
* tardy slipVerb
- (Shakespeare)
foreslow
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Alternative forms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- Furthermore all that are carried with circular motion, seem to foreslow , and to move with more than one motion.
- No stream, no wood, no mountain could foreslow / Their hasty pace.