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delayed

verbadjectivecommon in dialogue

  • //dəˈleɪd//
  • //diːˈleɪ.dəd//

Happening later than is usual, expected, or desired.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of delaysimple past and past participle of delay

adjective

  1. 1

    Happening later than is usual, expected, or desired.

    Many, and probably true, anecdotes have been published on the long-delayed and artful revenge of various animals.

    First, if the delayed policy is no more stringent, it will miss the climate target of the original, non-delayed policy [...]

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).