Usually means: Late or delayed beyond expected time.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word tardy:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tardy: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tardy: Merriam-Webster
  3. tardy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tardy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tardy: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tardy: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tardy, tardy: Wordnik
  8. tardy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tardy, -tardy, tardy: Wiktionary
  10. tardy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tardy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tardy: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. tardy: Dictionary.com
  14. tardy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tardy: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tardy (surname), Tardy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tardy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tardy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tardy: Rhymezone
  20. Tardy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tardy: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. tardy: FreeDictionary.org
  23. tardy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. tardy: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. tardy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tardy: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tardy: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tardy: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tardier as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Late; overdue or delayed.
adjective:  Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.
adjective:  Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull.
adjective:  (obsolete) Unwary; unready (especially in the phrase take (someone) tardy).
adjective:  (obsolete) Criminal; guilty.
noun:  (US) A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.
noun:  (US) An instance of a student's being marked as tardy by a teacher on the teacher's attendance sheet.
verb:  (obsolete, transitive) To make tardy.
verb:  (rare, intransitive) To dawdle.
noun:  A surname.

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