Unseasonable vs Timely - What's the difference?
unseasonable | timely | Antonyms |
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 :
Timely is a antonym of unseasonable.
As adjectives the difference between unseasonable and timely
is that unseasonable is not in accordance with the season while timely is done at the proper time.As an adverb timely is
in good time; early, quickly.timely
English
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.