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overdue

/ˌəʊ.vəˈdju//ˌoʊ.vəɹˈdu/

overdue adjective: late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.

Adjective

overdue (comparative more overdue, superlative most overdue)

  1. Late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.
    • his library books were three days overdue; my car is overdue for an oil change; she finally left on a long overdue vacation
    • [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July...2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845

Noun

overdue (plural overdues)

  1. A borrowed item (such as a library book) that has not been returned on time.
  2. A payment or invoice that is past due.

overdue meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada

overdue in Tamil

கெடு முடிதல்

overdue in Bengali

বিলম্বিত

overdue in Malayalam

അവധികഴിഞ്ഞ, സമയം തെറ്റിയ, കൊടുക്കാനുള്ള കാലാവധി കഴിഞ്ഞ

overdue in Kannada

ನಿರೀಕ್ಷೆಗಿಂತ ತಡವಾದ, ವಿಳಂಬವಾದ, ಕಾಲಮೀರಿದ, ಅವಧಿ ಮೀರಿದ, ಕಂತು ಹಳೇಬಾಕಿಯಿರುವ, ತಡವಾದ
More languagesFewer languages
overdue in Nepali
ओभरडिउ
overdue in Tagalog
lampas sa taning

Examples of overdue in a sentence

  • For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue.2013 July 20, “Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
  • The ornate canopy supports are overdue a repaint, and the closed cafe gives the place a forlorn air.2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 67:

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Forms of overdue

Adjective
comparativemore overdue
superlativemost overdue
Noun
pluraloverdues

Origin of overdue

From over- + due.

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Questions about overdue

What does overdue mean?
Overdue means late; especially, past a deadline or too late to fulfill a need.
What is overdue in Tamil?
Overdue in Tamil is கெடு முடிதல். See Overdue meaning in Tamil.
How do you use overdue in a sentence?
For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue.
What part of speech is overdue?
Overdue can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce overdue?
Overdue is pronounced /ˌəʊ.vəˈdju/ (UK).

Words near overdue in the dictionary

  1. overdubber
  2. overdubbers
  3. overdubbing
  4. overdubbings
  5. overdubs
  6. overdue
  7. overdue abortion
  8. overdue abortions
  9. overdues
  10. overdunged
  11. overduplicate

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Adapted from Wiktionary: overdue (page history and authors); overdue (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overdue (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overdue (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overdue (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); overdue (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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