late bloomer
noun
a person whose talents or capabilities are slow to develop: A late bloomer, she wrote her first novel when she was almost 50.
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Words nearby late bloomer
latch on, latch onto, latchstring, late, late blight, late bloomer, late-blooming, late charge, latecomer, lated, lateen
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School is hard, and I was a late-bloomer in finding out who I was and how to be myself.
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