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- Dictionarylately/ˈleɪtli/
adverb
- 1. recently; not long ago: "she hasn't been looking too well lately"
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adverb. uk / ˈleɪt.li / us / ˈleɪt.li / Add to word list. B1. recently: I haven't been feeling so well lately. Have you been doing anything interesting lately? Synonyms. of late formal. latterly formal. recently. Fewer examples. She's developed some very strange habits lately. She's been getting up to all sorts of mischief lately.
Late is both an adverb and an adjective; it means the opposite of early. Lately is also an adverb; it means ‘recently’. …
: of late : recently. has been friendlier lately. Synonyms. freshly. just. late. newly. now. only. recently. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of lately in a Sentence. He has been feeling better lately. Lately, she has been worrying about her son.
Lately is an adverb that covers the immediate past, a period of time that wasn't too long ago. A more old-fashioned way to say lately is "of late." Though this word has had its current meaning since the fifteenth century, it originally meant "slow or sluggish."
Lately definition: of late; recently; not long since. See examples of LATELY used in a sentence.
You use lately to describe events in the recent past, or situations that started a short time ago. Dad's health hasn't been too good lately. Lord Tomas had lately been appointed Chairman of the Centre for Policy Studies.
Definition of lately adverb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
