Recent vs Timely - What's the difference?
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Having happened a short while ago.
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Having done something a short while ago that distinguishes them as what they are called.
Done at the proper time.
Happening or appearing at the proper time.
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(obsolete) Keeping time or measure.
(archaic) In good time; early, quickly.
* 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 587:
(obsolete) At the right time; seasonably.
* 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica :
As adjectives the difference between recent and timely
is that recent is having happened a short while ago while timely is done at the proper time.As an adverb timely is
in good time; early, quickly.recent
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Adjective
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- The cause has several hundred recent donors.
- I met three recent graduates at the conference.
Derived terms
* recently * recent memoryAnagrams
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Adjective
(er)- The timely dew of sleep.
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Synonyms
* (done at the proper time ): well-timed * (happening or appearing at the proper time ): opportune, seasonableAntonyms
* (done at the proper time ): badly timed, ill-timed * (happening or appearing at the proper time ): inopportune, unseasonableDerived terms
* mistimely * overtimely * timelily * timeliness * timely-parted * untimelyAdverb
(en adverb)- ‘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.’
- 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.