Timely vs Apposite - What's the difference?
timely | apposite | Related terms |
Done at the proper time.
Happening or appearing at the proper time.
* Milton
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=October 20
, author=Jamie Lillywhite
, title=Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan
, work=BBC Sport
(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 :
Appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit.
* c.1833-1856 , Andrew Carrick, John Addington Symonds (editors), Medical Topography of Bristol'', in '' ,
*
* 1919 , , Chapter 15: The Expanding Vocabulary,
Positioned at rest in respect to another, be it side-to-side, front-to-front, back-to-back, or even three-dimensionally: in apposition.
* 1971 , University of London. School of Oriental and African Studies, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London , Volume 34,
Related, homologous.
* 2000 , David Skeele, "All That Monarchs Do": The Obscured Stages of Authority in Pericles'', in ''Pericles: Critical Essays ,
(rare) Something that is
* {{quote-book, year=1901, author=Charles L. Marson, title=Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Hugh gave the boy apples or other small apposites
Timely is a related term of apposite.
As adjectives the difference between timely and apposite
is that timely is done at the proper time while apposite is appropriate, relevant, well-suited; fit.As an adverb timely
is (archaic) in good time; early, quickly.As a noun apposite is
(rare) something that is.timely
English
Adjective
(er)- The timely dew of sleep.
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.}}
- (Spenser)
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.
See also
* seasonablyapposite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Medical Topography would be the most apposite title, since it comprehends the principal objects of investigation;.
- Flora, however, received the remark as if it had been of a most apposite and agreeable nature; approvingly observing aloud that Mr F.’s Aunt had a great deal of spirit.
- Rough-neck'' is a capital word; it is more apposite and savory than the English ''navvy , and it is over-whelmingly more American.
page 262,
- In other words, they are used to name, rather than to describe. They are apposite nouns and not adjectives.
- If the shift in theatrical setting and the shift in dramaturgy are at all related, they are apposite developments, independent yet homologous signs of a changing political and cultural climate.
Noun
(en noun)citation