Thesaurus:tardy time

Thesaurus:tardy time

THESAURUS

tardy time

English

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

• 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.