Thesaurus:tardy time

Thesaurus

tardy time

English

Noun

Sense: a notional system of time which may used both derogatorily and jocularly to account for various peoples' supposed tendency to be leisurely, not rigorous about scheduling, and often tardy

Note: All of these terms can be derogatory.

Synonyms

• African time
• black people's time
• Caribbean time
• Colored People's Time (US, dated)
• Fiji time
• Filipino time
• Hawaiian time
• Indian time
• island time
• Jamaican time
• Jewish Standard time
• Kenyan time
• Micronesian time
• Nigerian time
• Palauan time
• Puerto Rican time
• Samoa time
• Samoan time
• Tongan time

Antonyms

• haole time (Hawaii)
• mzungu time (East Africa)
• White People's time

Further reading

• “133. lateness” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.