behindhand
/bɪˈhʌɪndhand
/adjective [predicative]
1Late or slow in doing something: the Yoruba have not been behindhand in economic activity...
- There are certain days on which one feels oneself particularly wide of the mark; behindhand; in debt; showing a deficit.
- But, time and tide having waited impatiently in the wings, occasionally shaking their watches, I had really better get on and do some work before my next happy hour of the day finds me seriously behindhand.
- Because I'm behindhand on the particular thing in question I've thought of just letting it go.
Synonyms
behind, behind schedule, behind time, delayed;
late, belated, dilatory, tardy, unpunctual, slow, remiss;
running late, not on time
1.1 archaic Unaware of recent events: you are miserably behindhand—Mr Cole gave me a hint of it six weeks ago
Origin
Mid 16th century: from behind + hand, on the pattern of beforehand.
- (as) daft as a brush
- (as) dead as a doornail
- (as) dead as a (or the) dodo
- (as) dead as mutton
- (as) deaf as a post
- ASDIC
- as different as (or like) chalk and cheese
- (as) drunk as a lord (or skunk)
- (as) dry as a bone
- (as) dry as a Pommy's towel
- (as) dry as dust
- (as) dull as dishwater (or ditchwater)
- -ase
- ASEAN
- (as) easy as falling off a log
- (as) easy as pie
- as easy as winking
- (as) easy (or simple) as ABC
- a second thought
- aseismic
- asepsis
- aseptic
- aseptically
- asequia
- asexual