Word Meanings - UNTIMELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Not timely; done or happening at an unnatural, unusual, or improper time; unseasonable; premature; inopportune; as, untimely frosts; untimely remarks; an untimely death.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNTIMELY)
- Amiss
- Wrong
- untrue
- wide
- bad
- false
- defective
- short
- inappropriate
- inopportune
- injudicious
- untimely
- abortive
- Premature
- Hasty
- crude
- unauthenticated
- precocious
- precipitate
- too early
- rash
- unseasonable
Related words: (words related to UNTIMELY)
- PRECIPITATELY
In a precipitate manner; headlong; hastily; rashly. Swift. - FALSENESS
The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his - SHORT-WITED
Having little wit; not wise; having scanty intellect or judgment. - INOPPORTUNELY
Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently. - FALSE-FACED
Hypocritical. Shak. - WRONGOUS
Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful. - WRONG
1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly; - SHORT CIRCUIT
A circuit formed or closed by a conductor of relatively low resistance because shorter or of relatively great conductivity. - AMISSIBILITY
The quality of being amissible; possibility of being lost. Notions of popular rights and the amissibility of sovereign power for misconduct were alternately broached by the two great religious parties of Europe. Hallam. - SHORT-HANDED
Short of, or lacking the regular number of, servants or helpers. - SHORTHEAD
A sucking whale less than one year old; -- so called by sailors. - FALSETTO
A false or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice. - DEFECTIVE
Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied - SHORTCAKE
An unsweetened breakfast cake shortened with butter or lard, rolled thin, and baked. - WRONGLESS
Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney. - PRECOCIOUS
praecoquere to cook or ripen beforehand; prae before + coquere to 1. Ripe or mature before the proper or natural time; early or prematurely ripe or developed; as, precocious trees. Sir T. Browne. 2. Developed more than is natural or usual at - SHORTLY
1. In a short or brief time or manner; soon; quickly. Chaucer. I shall grow jealous of you shortly. Shak. The armies came shortly in view of each other. Clarendon. 2. In few words; briefly; abruptly; curtly; as, to express ideas more shortly in - AMISSION
Deprivation; loss. Sir T. Browne. - CRUDELY
In a crude, immature manner. - ABORTIVENESS
The quality of being abortive. - CLEARLY
In a clear manner. - HALF-YEARLY
Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually. - ABORTIVE
Imperfectly formed or developed; rudimentary; sterile; as, an abortive organ, stamen, ovule, etc. Causing abortion; as, abortive medicines. Parr. Cutting short; as, abortive treatment of typhoid fever. (more info) 1. Produced by abortion; born - EARLY
Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson. - RECRUDESCENT
recrudescere to become raw again; pref. re- re- + crudescere to 1. Growing raw, sore, or painful again. 2. Breaking out again after temporary abatement or supression; as, a recrudescent epidemic. - OVERHASTY
Too hasty; precipitate; rash. -- O"ver*has"ti*ly, adv. -- O`ver*has"ti*ness, n.