behindhand

形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Late, tardy, overdue, behind (in accomplishing a task, etc.). archaic
    — 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. Not at the expected point of completion. archaic
    — 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. Behind (someone or something moving, a trend, etc.), lagging behind, not keeping up. archaic
    — I have constantly observed, that the generality of people are fifty years, at least, behind-hand in their politicks.
  4. Behind in paying a debt; in arrears. archaic
    — Leo. ... theſe thy offices (So rarely kind) are as Interpreters Of my behind-hand ſlackneſſe.
  5. Not having enough of, lacking (in something). archaic
    — 1777, Samuel Johnson, Letter to James Boswell dated 25 November, 1777, cited in James Boswell, The Life of Samuel Johnson, London: Charles Dilly, 1791, Volume 2, p. 178, […] I have had for some time a very difficult and laborious respiration, but I am better by purges, abstinence, and other methods. I am yet however much behind-hand in my health and rest.
  6. Inferior, less advanced (compared with someone in something). dated
    — […] 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.
副词 adv.
  1. Belatedly, tardily. archaic
  2. In debt, or in arrears. archaic

词形变化

more behindhand comparative most behindhand superlative behind-hand alternative more behindhand comparative most behindhand superlative behind-hand alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
behindhandness

词源

词源 1
From behind + hand.
词源 2
From behind + hand.
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