Friday, August 09, 2013

Building up vocabulary: Tardy/Tardiness

I was leafing through a book this morning and came across the word "tardiness" and decided it was worth looking it up in dictionaries.

Tardy is an adjective that works as a synonym for "late, behind time, not on time". The noun that derives from it is "Tardiness", which is the quality or state of being late. The adverb related to it is "Tardily".
<habitual tardiness will be recorded in your personnel file>

Sources:
1) 
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/tardiness
2) http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tardiness
3) http://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tardiness

1 comment:

Levi Ramos said...

Wow! Three shiny ones coming your way!!