belated

adjective3

1. •
   Later in relation to the proper time which something should have happened; specifically, delayed beyond the proper time.

   • A belated happy birthday to you!
2. •
   (figurative) Slow to learn or to adopt a trend; hence, lacking education or sophistication; benighted, unenlightened, unsophisticated.

   • The devil drives the world, whip in hand,—and oddly enough (considering that some belated folk still fancy there is a God somewhere) succeeds in managing his team with extraordinary ease! — 1895
3. •
   Affected or overtaken by the lateness of the time; hence, synonym of benighted (“overtaken by night; caught out by oncoming night before reaching one's destination”).

   • […] Faerie Elves, / VVhose midnight Revels, by a Forrest side / Or Fountain some belated Peasant sees, / Or dreams he sees, […] — 1667