LekhoriLekhoriMoving with a slow pace or motion; not swift.
[…] fashions in proud Italy, / Whose manners still our tardy apish nation / Limps after in base imitation.
Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull.
His tardy performance bordered on incompetence.
A piece of paper given to students who are late to class.
The teacher gave her a tardy because she did not come into the classroom until after the bell.
An instance of a student's being marked as tardy by a teacher on the teacher's attendance sheet.
A surname.
From an earlier tardive, from French tardif, from Late Latin tardīvus, from Latin tardus (“slow”, “sluggish”), of obscure origin.
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To dawdle.
Sitting there on the rock behind the school, I heard nothing but the occasional raised voice of some youngster tardying on his way home, and the joints in the schoolhouse squeaking from the frost.