Dictionary Entry
behindhand
behindhand is a 10-letter English word with 4 senses as adjectivedverb & adjective, adjective, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds. Face value is 20 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 20 · Words With Friends 21 · 4 senses
Definitions
- 1adjectivedverb & adjective
In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds.
- 2adjectivedverb & adjective
In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work.
- 3adjective
behind schedule
"was behindhand with the rent"
- 4adverb
in debt
"he fell behind with his mortgage payments"
"a month behind in the rent"
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