Behindhand
[bi'haidhænd]
Definition
(adv. & a.) In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.
(adv. & a.) In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Backward, late, tardy, after the usual time.
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Examples
- The strike had thrown him terribly behindhand, as to the completion of these orders. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Well, then, Lady Bertram, suppose you speak for tea directly; suppose you hurry Baddeley a little; he seems behindhand to-night. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Can you think your friend behindhand in these sort of considerations? Jane Austen. Emma.
- That criticism as an art is still somewhat behindhand in America seems to be confirmed by comparing French and American literary criticism. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- If anybody can be found to accomplish the songs, I observed, I won't be behindhand. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Nor was Podder behindhand in earning laurels wherewith to garnish himself and Muggleton. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But you are miserably behindhand. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Not to be behindhand in the sociality of the evening, he complies and gives them Believe Me, if All Those Endearing Young Charms. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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