belated
adjective/bɪˈleɪtɪd/
/bɪˈleɪtɪd/
- coming or happening late
- a belated birthday present
- the government’s belated response to the report on nursery education
- This increase in funding suggests a belated acknowledgement of the project’s value.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryBelated is used with these nouns:- congratulations
- realization
- recognition
- …
Word Originearly 17th cent. (in the sense ‘overtaken by darkness’): past participle of obsolete belate ‘delay’ (see be-, late).Definitions on the go
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