| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| ADJECTIVE: | 1. No longer alive: asleep, dead, deceased, defunct, departed, extinct, gone, lifeless. Idioms: at rest, pushing up daisies. See LIVE. 2. Having been such previously: erstwhile, former, old, once, onetime, past, previous, quondam, sometime, whilom. See PRECEDE. 3. Not being on time: behindhand, belated, overdue, tardy. See TIME. | | ADVERB: | 1. Not long ago: lately, latterly, recently. Idioms: of late. See NEAR, PRECEDE, TIME. 2. Not on time: behind, behindhand, belatedly, tardily. See TIME. 3. So as to fall behind schedule: behind, behindhand, slow. Idioms: behind time. See TIME.
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