behindhand

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Late, tardy, overdue, behind (in accomplishing a task, etc.).

   “These days before the examinations began were very difficult for everybody, and Perrin began that hideous “getting behind-hand” that made things accumulate so that there seemed no chance of ever catching up.”

2. sıfat Not at the expected point of completion.

   “It was now the season for planting and sowing; many gardens and allotments of the villagers had already received their spring tillage; but the garden and the allotment of the Durbeyfields were behindhand.”

3. sıfat Behind (someone or something moving, a trend, etc.), lagging behind, not keeping up.

   “I have constantly observed, that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind-hand in their politicks.”

4. sıfat Behind in paying a debt; in arrears.

   “Leo. ... theſe thy offices (So rarely kind) are as Interpreters Of my behind-hand ſlackneſſe.”

5. sıfat Not having enough of, lacking (in something).
6. sıfat Inferior, less advanced (compared with someone in something).

   “[…] I’ll shew you I scorn to be behind-hand in Civility with you; and as you are not angry for what I have said, so I am not angry for what you have said.”

7. zarf Belatedly, tardily.
8. zarf In debt, or in arrears.