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Seemly vs Timely - What's the difference?

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Seemly is a related term of timely.


As adjectives the difference between seemly and timely

is that seemly is (of behavior) appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming while timely is done at the proper time.

As adverbs the difference between seemly and timely

is that seemly is appropriately, fittingly while timely is (archaic) in good time; early, quickly.

seemly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • (of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.
  • His behavior was seemly , as befits a gentleman.
  • * Shakespeare
  • I am a woman, lacking wit / To make a seemly answer to such persons.
  • * Hooker
  • Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.

    Synonyms

    * apposite

    Antonyms

    * unseemly

    Derived terms

    * * * seemliness

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Appropriately, fittingly.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
  • The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].

    timely

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Done at the proper time.
  • Happening or appearing at the proper time.
  • * Milton
  • The timely dew of sleep.
  • * {{quote-news
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  • (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