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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.

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  • 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.

 

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