Later and Overdue

Later

Later adjective - Being, occurring, or carried out at a time after something else.

Overdue and later are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Overdue" instead an adjective "Later".

Overdue

Overdue adjective - Not arriving, or occurring, or settled at the due, usual, or proper time.

Later and overdue are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Later" instead an adjective "Overdue".

Both words in one sentence

  • Sting: After finishing up his TNA run, he made his much overdue WWE debut in 2014, unfortunately retiring two years later due to cervical spinal stenosis.
    Source: The New Tens
  • Pick on Someone Your Own Size Thirty years later, when Al returns to the library to return an overdue book, the now elderly librarian is still there and ready to renew the enmity with the now middle-aged Al.
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