tardive

American  

[tahr-div] / ˈtɑr dɪv /

adjective

1. appearing or tending to appear late, as in human development or in the treatment of a disease.

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Usage

What does tardive mean? Tardive describes something as tending to appear late, usually in reference to development or the progression of a disease. The symptoms or the disease itself occur late or on a delay. Tardive symptoms and diseases usually appear years after the beginning of the actual disease. Tremors and tics are common symptoms that show up later and are described as tardive, for example. The most common use of tardive is in tardive dyskinesia. This is a disease that causes the body to involuntarily jerk, such as with a twisting of the head and neck or with facial expressions. Tardive dyskinesia is developed most often by taking antipsychotic medication for long periods of time. It’s called tardive dyskinesia because symptoms don’t tend to show up until the patient has been taking the medication for many years, and they may even appear after the person has stopped taking it. Example: Martin’s doctor helped him manage the tardive tics caused by his antipsychotic medication.

Etymology

Origin of tardive

1960–65; < French tardive, feminine of tardif tardy

Example Sentences

After this incident, he began showing symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and tardive dyskinesia.

From Slate • Jan. 24, 2023

Louis also suffers from tardive dyskinesia — which causes involuntary body movements — and uses his condition to earn sympathy from judges and juries.

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2016

Pharmaceutical manufacturers market, and doctors offer expensive drugs of little or no benefit for dementia that sometimes even have severe side effects like diabetes, heavy sedation or tardive dyskinesia.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2012

Vendange Tardiveby Peter Reading A vendange tardive is a late-harvest wine, and the title poem records the gift of a bottle on the poet's 62nd birthday.

From The Guardian • Mar. 5, 2011

The grosse mignonne peach at Montreuil produced "from a sporting branch" the grosse mignonne tardive, "a most excellent variety," which ripens its fruit a fortnight later than the parent tree, and is equally good.

From The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume 1 by Darwin, Charles