of late

Speech parts

1. of late - Adverb

2. of late - Phrase

Meaning

in the recent past

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

late recently freshly lately latterly newly anew afresh not long ago in recent times in the past few days in the last few days in the past few months in the past few weeks in the last couple of weeks
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Antonyms

anciently before long ago long since in the past back when
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Related terms

as of late

Examples

Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine. Flora Thompson

The difficulty with this conversation is that it's very different from most of the ones I've had of late. Which, as I explained, have mostly been with trees. Douglas Adams

Of late years (perhaps as a result of our political changes) art has borrowed from history more than ever. Alfred de Vigny

Think of late paintings where Christ is the central figure... Remember the large mosaics of Rome. Reconcile the employment of large-scale decorative means and the direct emotions of nature. Maurice Denis

The oppression of a majority by a minority, and the demoralization inevitably resulting from it, is a phenomenon that has always occupied me and has done so most particularly of late. Leo Tolstoy

He looked around the landscape. Drenched in the golden haze of late afternoon it seemed wonderfully tranquil and beautiful, though permeated with a sense of remoteness and even melancholy, like a scene remembered from one's youth. Jack Vance

Words in the phrase

of late

Close letter words and terms

of kiev of Koranic proportions of lake superior of legal security of level crossings of little account