latterlyEnglishOxford English Thesauruslatterly adverb 1 latterly, she had been in more pain: recently, lately, of late, in the past few days, in the last couple of weeks, in recent times. ▷antonyms formerly. 2 he worked on the paper for fifty years, latterly as its political editor: ultimately, finally, towards the end, at the end.latterly Oxford Dictionary of English