behind schedule
Not on time
Behind schedule means late relative to a planned timeline.
Projects, trains, or people can be behind schedule when they haven't reached expected milestones by the expected time: We're three weeks behind schedule on the renovation.
The opposite is ahead of schedule.
- delayedMade to wait longer
- lateNot on time
- overduePast expected arrival
- running lateBehind expected arrival time
- slippingLosing footing unintentionally
lagging · missed deadline · deadline · crunch time · time crunch · crunch · overtime · scrambling · rushed · burning the midnight oil · backlogged · in the weeds · setback · bottleneck · procrastination · overwhelmed · stressed · playing catch up
- late excusesrunning late, stuck in traffic, lost track of time, delayed, overslept
- timing problemsdelay, lag, timeout, late arrival, late start
- delayeddelayed, postponed, deferred, suspended, on hold
- delaysdelays, delay, delayed, postponement, postpone
- flight statusbooked, canceled, delayed, boarding, cancelled
- setbacksfailing, back to square one, stuck, losing, stumbles
temporal progress relative to plan
behind scheduleahead of schedule
Before the planned time
early · on schedule · on time · ahead of time · on track
behind, schedule, hind, hinder, hindmost, scheduled, schedules, scheduling, reschedule