Belated
adjective
Happening later than it should have.
I want to say a belated happy birthday to you.
Often appears as...
- belated birthday
- belated congratulations
adjective
Happening later than it should have.
I want to say a belated happy birthday to you.
Often appears as...
- belated birthday
- belated congratulations
Definition 1 of 1
Pro Tip 1/3Apology Tone
Usually suggests a tone of apology for the lateness in recognizing an occasion or event.
Please accept my belated wedding wishes.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Negative
'Belated' itself isn't negative, but acknowledges a delay which can imply an unintended slight.
A belated note of thanks is better than none.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Personal
Commonly used in a personal context, such as birthdays or anniversaries.
I'm sorry for my belated birthday wishes!
Pro Tip 1/3Apology Tone
Usually suggests a tone of apology for the lateness in recognizing an occasion or event.
Please accept my belated wedding wishes.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Negative
'Belated' itself isn't negative, but acknowledges a delay which can imply an unintended slight.
A belated note of thanks is better than none.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Personal
Commonly used in a personal context, such as birthdays or anniversaries.
I'm sorry for my belated birthday wishes!
Pro Tip 1/3Apology Tone
Usually suggests a tone of apology for the lateness in recognizing an occasion or event.
Please accept my belated wedding wishes.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Negative
'Belated' itself isn't negative, but acknowledges a delay which can imply an unintended slight.
A belated note of thanks is better than none.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Personal
Commonly used in a personal context, such as birthdays or anniversaries.
I'm sorry for my belated birthday wishes!
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Niall Ferguson: The 6...
it was also being asked at roughly the same time by the Resterners -- by the people in the rest of the world -- like Ibrahim Muteferrika, an Ottoman official, the man who introduced printing, very belatedly, to the Ottoman Empire --
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A Submarine Assault PIPE...
fight yet this fight determines whether or not you're going to live or die at 0-425 the submarine is halfway across the bow of the enemy ship right full runner commander ramage belatedly orders a hard turn starboard
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Why should you read...
And the poet himself received his own belated, earthly redemption in 2008, when the city of Florence finally revoked Dante’s antiquated exile.
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Niall Ferguson: The 6...
it was also being asked at roughly the same time by the Resterners -- by the people in the rest of the world -- like Ibrahim Muteferrika, an Ottoman official, the man who introduced printing, very belatedly, to the Ottoman Empire --
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A Submarine Assault PIPE...
fight yet this fight determines whether or not you're going to live or die at 0-425 the submarine is halfway across the bow of the enemy ship right full runner commander ramage belatedly orders a hard turn starboard
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Why should you read...
And the poet himself received his own belated, earthly redemption in 2008, when the city of Florence finally revoked Dante’s antiquated exile.
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Quote examples
Chris Pine
American Actor
I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.
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Benjamin Spock
American Scientist
People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.
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Cynthia Ozick
American Novelist
I think it is serious to have good sales. As I learned belatedly, the more you sell, the more publishers pay attention to you, and it took me a very long time to figure that out because I never thought that way.
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Ardal O'Hanlon
Irish Comedian
I was a terribly quiet, shy child. The comedy thing came when I was at university and I started doing stand-up, which I think was a belated compensation for all that time I spent hiding behind the couch.
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Jan Egeland
Norwegian Public Servant
I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.
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Giles Foden
English Author
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
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Leon Askin
Austrian Actor
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
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Irvin S. Cobb
American Journalist
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
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Jeff Daniels
American Actor
Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.
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Gloria Steinem
American Activist
Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.
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Chris Pine
American Actor
I feel prematurely old. I'm actually having this major belated quarter-life crisis. I'm turning 30 in a couple of weeks. I've been thinking a lot about mortality. A lot about what I'm going to do with my life and how to enjoy it. One of the things I'm going to work on is being more spontaneous, letting go, embracing the beauty of come-what-may.
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Benjamin Spock
American Scientist
People have criticized me for seeming to step out of my professional role to become undignifiedly political. I'd say it was belated realization that day care, good schools, health insurance, and nuclear disarmament are even more important aspects of pediatrics than measles vaccine or vitamin D.
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Cynthia Ozick
American Novelist
I think it is serious to have good sales. As I learned belatedly, the more you sell, the more publishers pay attention to you, and it took me a very long time to figure that out because I never thought that way.
Quote examples
Ardal O'Hanlon
Irish Comedian
I was a terribly quiet, shy child. The comedy thing came when I was at university and I started doing stand-up, which I think was a belated compensation for all that time I spent hiding behind the couch.
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Jan Egeland
Norwegian Public Servant
I think now, we in the international community are belatedly wanting to show our solidarity with the Somali peoples and also do our best to help them move to better times.
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Giles Foden
English Author
To realise belatedly that there are Swahili epic poems which rival their European equivalents for sweep and power has been exciting.
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Leon Askin
Austrian Actor
At the end of my life, I have achieved belated fame and recognition in the city of my birth.
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Irvin S. Cobb
American Journalist
An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that has been discontinued.
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Jeff Daniels
American Actor
Well, the music industry is littered with actors who belatedly came to singing.
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Gloria Steinem
American Activist
Feminism began to dawn on my brain belatedly in life.
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