Crossword-Solution: LATE 4 letters, 538 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 4

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Late	v.	Coming after the time when due, or after the usual or proper time; not early; slow; tardy; long delayed; as, a late spring.
Late	v.	Far advanced toward the end or close; as, a late hour of the day; a late period of life.
Late	v.	Existing or holding some position not long ago, but not now; lately deceased, departed, or gone out of office; as, the late bishop of London; the late administration.
Late	v.	Not long past; happening not long ago; recent; as, the late rains; we have received late intelligence.
Late	v.	Continuing or doing until an advanced hour of the night; as, late revels; a late watcher.
Late	a.	After the usual or proper time, or the time appointed; after delay; as, he arrived late; -- opposed to early.
Late	a.	Not long ago; lately.
Late	a.	Far in the night, day, week, or other particular period; as, to lie abed late; to sit up late at night.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
LATE	anagram	ALET, ALTE, ATEL, ATLE, ELAT, ETAL, ETLA, LAET, LEAT, LETA, TAEL, TALE, TEAL, TELA

We have 538 clues for the answer “LATE”

Clue	Answers
Behind schedule	1 answer
"Am I too ___?"	1 answer
"Better ___ than pregnant!"	1 answer
"Fashionable" way to show up to a party	1 answer
"I know it's ___, I know you're weary ..."	1 answer
"I'm ___!" (White Rabbit's cry)	1 answer
"It's getting ___"	1 answer
"It's never too ___!"	1 answer
"It's too ___, baby" Carole King	1 answer
"Super ___ Bloomer" (Julia Kaye collection)	1 answer
"The ___ George Apley"	1 answer
"Too ___ for Love" Def Leppard	1 answer
"Too little, too ___"	1 answer
"You're ___!" (reproof)	1 answer
"___ and soon": Wordsworth	1 answer
11:30 P.M., to some	1 answer
Accommodating to night owls	1 answer
Adjective aptly applied to Apley	1 answer
Adjective for George Apley	1 answer
Adjective for a Marquand hero	1 answer
After 11 P.M.	1 answer
After Hours 1200	1 answer
After deadline	1 answer
After delay.	1 answer
After lights-out	1 answer
After midnight, say	1 answer
After midnight, to Cinderella	1 answer
After normal hours	1 answer
After the buzzer	1 answer
After the due date	1 answer
After-hours show	1 answer
Alison Krauss "Called my baby ___ last night"	1 answer
All-too-common flight status	1 answer
Anagram for tael	1 answer
Around midnight	1 answer
At day's end	1 answer
At midnight, say	1 answer
At nine and a half months, say	1 answer
At the eleventh hour.	1 answer
Bad way to get to work	1 answer
Behind the clock	1 answer
Better than never, it's said	1 answer
Better this than never	1 answer
Better-than never connection	1 answer
Cunctatious	1 answer
Defying expectations?	1 answer
Delayed, perhaps	1 answer
Delinquent, as debt	1 answer
Departed behind schedule	1 answer
During the wee hours	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

ETREA

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with LATE (5)

They chuckled, boylike, because they would be late for bed; and it was all mother Wendy’s fault! When their voices died away there came cold silence over the lagoon, and then a feeble cry.

Peter Pan James M. Barrie 1991

For should Man finally be lost, should Man Thy creature late so lov’d, thy youngest Son Fall circumvented thus by fraud, though joynd With his own folly? that be from thee farr, That farr be from thee, Father, who art Judge Of all things made, and judgest onely right.

Paradise Lost John Milton 1991

The whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes, when too late, repented of their folly.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

Late in life he married a second time, a Stockholm woman of questionable character, much younger than he, who goaded him into every sort of extravagance.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Even so, the economy grew rapidly during the late 1970s and early 1980s, but in 1986 the collapse of world oil prices and an increasingly heavy burden of debt servicing led Egypt to begin negotiations with the IMF for balance-of-payments support.

The 1991 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1992

Quotes with LATE (3)

A guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other... Maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever

Dave Matthews Band

Charlotte, darling, Henry said to his wife, who was staring at im in gape-mouthed horror. Jassamine, beside her, was wided eyed. Sorry im late. You know, i think i might nearly have the sensor working- Will interrupted. Henry, he said, your on fire. You do know that, don't you? Oh, yes, Henry said eagerly. The flames were now nearly to his shoulder. I've been working like a man possessed all day. Charlotte, did you hear what i said about the sensor? Charlotte dropped her hand…

Cassandra Clare Clockwork Angel

I look for you in every life, but I don't always find you. And sometimes I find you too late.

Kirsten Miller The Eternal Ones

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 1,122 times in crossword archives (1947–2025).