Late; overdue or delayed. / Moving with a slow pace or motion; not swift. / Ineffectual; slow-witted, slow to act, or dull. / (obsolete) Unwary; unready (especially in the phrase take (someone) tardy).

(US) A piece of paper given to students who are late to class. / (US) An instance of a student's being marked as tardy by a teacher on the teacher's attendance sheet.

(obsolete, transitive) To make tardy.

A surname.

plural of Tardy

(slang, derogatory) Used to form words conveying an attitude of contempt or doubt over the subject's intelligence. Meaning: retardation, extreme stupidity. / (rare) To be or make slow, slower or delayed.

Alternative form of Tardis

The time machine and spacecraft used by the Doctor in the British sci-fi television series Doctor Who, which is larger on the inside than its exterior (that of a British police box) suggests, or any of the conceptually similar time machines used by other members of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords.

Alternative form of Tardis (something which resembles the bigger-on-the-inside time machine from the series Doctor Who).

(uncountable) The state or quality of being tardy. / (countable) The result or product of being tardy.