lately

adverb3

1. •
   recently, in the weeks or months just before now

   • I'd lately returned from Japan.
   • It's only lately that I've been well enough to get out of bed.
2. •
   Formerly.

   • David George Philip Cholmondeley, The Marquess of CHOLMONDELEY, K.C.V.O., lately Lord Great Chamberlain, Royal Household. — 2023
3. •
   (slang) In a late manner; after-the-fact.

   • Don't try to come lately and change your answer now after you've heard everyone else's response.