Word Meanings - TIMELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable. "The timely dew of sleep." Milton. 2. Keeping time or measure. Spenser.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TIMELY)

• Apposite
• Suitable
• appropriate
• befitting
• fitting
• timely
• congruous
• consistent
• pertinent
• seasonable
• relevant
• fit
• meet
• adapted
• apropos
• Convenient
• Handy
• apt
• fitted
• suitable
• helpful
• commodious
• useful
• opportune
• Felicitous
• Happy
• successful
• joyous
• Opportune
• Timely
• felicitous
• auspicious
• Propitious
• favorable
• beneficial
• friendly
• welldisposed
• gracious
• benign
• fortunate

Related words: (words related to TIMELY)

• AUSPICIOUS
  1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• RELEVANTLY
  In a relevant manner.
• PERTINENT
  1. Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence. 2. Regarding; concerning; belonging;
• BENEFICIAL
  Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which
• CONVENIENTLY
  In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
• FAVORABLE
  1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
• COMMODIOUS
  Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house. "A commodious drab." Shak. "Commodious gold." Pope. The haven was not commodious to winter in. Acts.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• FORTUNATE
  1. Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment. 2. Receiving same unforeseen
• HANDY-DANDY
  A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• COMMODIOUSNESS
  State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convience; roominess. Of cities, the greatness and riches increase according to the commodiousness of their situation. Sir W. Temple. The commodiousness of the harbor. Johnson.
• HANDY
  Easily managed; obedient to the helm; -- said of a vessel. (more info) hendig , fr. hand hand; akin to D. handig, Goth. handugs 1. Performed by the hand. To draw up and come to handy strokes. Milton. 2. Skillful in using the hand; dexterous;
• HAPPY
  1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen. Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them.
• ADAPTNESS
  Adaptedness.
• BENIGNLY
  In a benign manner.
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• APPERTINENT
  Belonging; appertaining. Coleridge.
• INOPPORTUNELY
  Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently.
• DISCOMMODIOUS
  Inconvenient; troublesome; incommodious. Spenser. -- Dis`com*mo"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis`com*mo"di*ous*ness, n.
• UNSUCCESSFUL
  Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ness, n.
• UNFAVORABLE
  Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.
• UNAPPROPRIATE
  1. Inappropriate; unsuitable. 2. Not appropriated. Bp. Warburton.