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3. abeyance, postponement, deferment, deferral; suspension, halt, stop, pause, recess, break; interstice, interim, interval, intermission, intermittence, intermit-tency; delay, wait, waiting period, Psychoanal. latency period, Pathol, latent period.
4. secrecy, tacitness, covertness, concealment.
lateness, n. 1. tardiness, unpunctuality, unpunctualness; slowness, laggardness, lagging, loitering, lingering, tarrying, dallying, dilly-dallying, dawdling, hanging back.
2. delay, cunctation, procrastination, dilatoriness, procrastinativeness; postponement, putting off, deferment, deferral, prorogation, suspension, holdup, stay; prolongation, protraction, extension, lengthening.
latent, adj. 1. dormant, dormient, quiescent; veiled, hidden, Obs. latitant, Inf closet, delitescent; potential, undeveloped, unrealized, possible; unsuspected, unseen, invisible, unapparent, indiscernible, undis-cernable, imperceptible, inconspicuous, unsuggested, unindicated, unintimated, unintended.
2. secret, cryptic, enigmatic, mysterious, occult, arcane, esoteric, recondite; mystic, mystical, cabalistic, cabalis-tical; anagogic, anagogical; cryptographic, cryptographical; symbolic, figurative, emblematic, emblematical, metaphorical.
3. implied, implicit, implicated, implicative, implica-tory, implicational, indicated, indicative, meant, hinted at, suggested, suggestive, adumbrative; insinuated, in-sinuatory, insinuative, insinuating, intimated; inferred, inferential, derived, derivative, concluded, conclusion-al, construed, constructive; unexpressed, unmentioned, unsaid, unstated, undeclared, unuttered, unarticulated, unproclaimed; unacknowledged, undisclosed, unexposed.
4. idle, inactive, passive, unstirring; inert, lifeless, motionless, immovable, immobile, unmoving, stationary; still, stock-still, Chiefly Literary, stilly, becalmed; resting, slumbering, slumberous, somnolent, sleeping, sleepy, hibernating, estivating, (of land) fallow; dull, sluggish, sedentary, stagnant, lethargic, listless, languid.
5. inoperative, nonfunctioning, nonperforming, unused; suspended, deferred, postponed, in abeyance; pausing, stopping, breaking, waiting, hesitating, hesitant, delaying, abeyant.
6. tacit, covert, concealed, confidential, covered up, undercover, underground, underhand, underhanded, devious, clandestine; indirect, deceptive, subversive, surreptitious; illicit, crooked, dishonest, fraudulent, Inf. shady; indefinite, undefined, dim, vague, unclear, hazy, cloudy, nebulous, indistinct.
later, adj. 1. subsequent, next, following, coming; succeeding, successive, sequent, sequential. -adv. 2. subsequently, next, successively, sequentially, in sequel.
3. later on, at a later date, at a future time or date, at some point in the future, at a later time, Inf. farther down the road; by and by, in the future, hereafter, in time to come, in days to come; in or after a while, in or after a bit, before too long.
lateral, adj. sidewise, sideways, sidelong, sideward, sidewards; edgewise, edgeways; sideling, indirect, oblique, sloping, slanting; askance, askant, asquint; bordering, marginal, edging, verging, fl?nking, fringing, skirting; sided, flanked; abreast, collateral.
laterally, adv. sideways, sidewise, sideway, sidewards, sideward, sideling, sidelong; obliquely, slopingly, aslant, slantwise, slantways; edgeways, edgewise, broadside; abreast, alongside, to one side, beside, by the side of; neck and neck, side by side, cheek to cheek; askant, askance, asquint, askew, awry; transversely, crosswise, crossways, athwart, Naut. athwartships, across.
latest, adj. 1. last, final, ultimate.
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