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).

(obsolete, transitive) To make 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.

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

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

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

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.