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Consonant is a related term of timely.


As adjectives the difference between consonant and timely

is that consonant is characterized by harmony or agreement while timely is done at the proper time.

As a noun consonant

is (lb) a sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.

As an adverb timely is

(archaic) in good time; early, quickly.

consonant

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (lb) A sound that results from the passage of air through restrictions of the oral cavity; any sound that is not the dominant sound of a syllable, the dominant sound generally being a vowel.
  • A letter representing the sound of a consonant.
  • :
  • *
  • *:Thus, when he drew up instructions in lawyer language, he expressed the important words by an initial, a medial, or a final consonant , and made scratches for all the words between; his clerks, however, understood him very well.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Characterized by harmony or agreement.
  • * Bishop Beveridge
    • Each one pretends that his opinion is consonant to the words there used.
  • * Dr. H. More
    • That where much is given shall be much required is a thing consonant with natural equity.
  • Having the same sound.
  • * Howell
    • consonant words and syllables
  • (music) Harmonizing together; accordant.
    • consonant''' tones; '''consonant chords
  • Of or relating to consonants; made up of, or containing many, consonants.
  • * T. Moore
    • No Russian whose dissonant consonant name / Almost shatters to fragments the trumpet of fame.

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "consonant")

    Antonyms

    * disconsonant * discordant

    Related terms

    * consonance

    See also

    * vowel * semivowel * ----

    timely

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Done at the proper time.
  • Happening or appearing at the proper time.
  • * Milton
    • The timely dew of sleep.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 20 , author=Jamie Lillywhite , title=Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.}}
  • (obsolete) Keeping time or measure.
    • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * (done at the proper time ): well-timed * (happening or appearing at the proper time ): opportune, seasonable

    Antonyms

    * (done at the proper time ): badly timed, ill-timed * (happening or appearing at the proper time ): inopportune, unseasonable

    Derived terms

    * mistimely * overtimely * timelily * timeliness * timely-parted * untimely

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) In good time; early, quickly.
  • * 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 587:
    • ‘If I had been born more timely , he said, Rhaegar would have married me instead of Elia, and it would all have come out different.’
  • (obsolete) At the right time; seasonably.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica :
    • And this we shall more readily perform, if we timely survey our knowledge, impartially singling out those encroachments, which junior compliance and popular credulity hath admitted.

    See also

    * seasonably