unpunctual
adjEtymology From un- + punctual.
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Not punctual.
- Jim was so unpunctual — always late!
- Indeed, the only unpunctual trains appear to be some of the International ones, and with these, if they are likely to be over an hour late reaching the frontier-station, the Swiss run their own train over the route provided the International express was being used for inter-communication with Switzerland.1947 November and December, Lord Garnock, “A Swiss Railway Miscellany”, in Railway Magazine, page 341:
- Derived terms
- unpunctually, unpunctualness