later
adjective
[ ˈleɪtə ]
• comparative of late (adjective).
later
adverb
• comparative of late (adverb).
later
exclamation
• goodbye for the present; see you later.
-later
combining form
• denoting a person who worships a specified thing.
• "idolater"
Origin:
from Greek -latrēs ‘worshipper’.
late
adjective
• doing something or taking place after the expected, proper, or usual time.
• "his late arrival"
Similar:
behind time,
behind schedule,
behind,
behindhand,
not on time,
unpunctual,
tardy,
running late,
overdue,
long-overdue,
delayed,
long-delayed,
belated,
slow,
dilatory,
• belonging or taking place far on in a particular period.
• "they won the game with a late goal"
• (of a specified person) no longer alive.
• "the late Francis Bacon"
Similar:
dead,
deceased,
departed,
lamented,
passed on/away,
lost,
expired,
gone,
extinct,
perished,
late
adverb
• after the expected, proper, or usual time.
• "she arrived late"
Similar:
behind schedule,
behind time,
behindhand,
unpunctually,
belatedly,
tardily,
at the last minute,
at the tail end,
dilatorily,
slowly,
recently,
• far on in time; towards the end of a period.
• "it happened late in 1994"
• formerly but not now living or working in a specified place or institution.
• "Mrs Halford, late of the County Records Office"
Origin:
Old English læt (adjective; also in the sense ‘slow, tardy’), late (adverb), of Germanic origin; related to German lass, from an Indo-European root shared by Latin lassus ‘weary’, let1, and let2.
