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Seasonably vs Timely - What's the difference?

seasonably | timely |

As adverbs the difference between seasonably and timely

is that seasonably is in due season; at an opportune or fitting time while timely is (archaic) in good time; early, quickly.

As a adjective timely is

done at the proper time.

seasonably

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • In due season; at an opportune or fitting time.
  • * 1661 , , p. 6-7:
    • ...having very long suspended our conference about the freshly mention'd Subject, it was so newly begun when you came in, that we shall scarce need to repeat any thing to acquaint you With what has pass'd betwixt us before your arrival, so that I cannot but look upon it as a fortunate Accident that you should come so seasonably , to be not hearers alone, but we hope Interlocutors at our conference.
  • Varying with the season.
  • In a manner appropriate to the season.
  • (chiefly, legal) Within the appropriate time period during which an action will be legally effective, as prescribed in legislation, a contract, or otherwise.
  • * 2005 : § 1-204(3). The American Law Institute and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.
    • An action is taken "seasonably" when it is taken at or within the time agreed or if no time is agreed at or within a reasonable time.

    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