untimely
adverb
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Pronunciation: /ʌnˈtaɪmli/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English untymely (also earlier untimliche), equivalent to un- + timely. First attested in the early 13th century. Compare Middle Danish utimelig, Old English untídlic (“unreasonable”).
- At an inopportune time.
“untimely remarks”
- Early; premature.
“an untimely death”
“The heroes of literary as well as civil history have been very often no less remarkable for what they have suffered, than for what they have atchieved^([sic]); and volumes have been written only to enumerate the miseries of the learned, and relate their unhappy lives, and untimely deaths.”
adv
Etymology: From Middle English untymely (also earlier untimliche), equivalent to un- + timely. First attested in the early 13th century. Compare Middle Danish utimelig, Old English untídlic (“unreasonable”).
- Prematurely.
“Tell thee, Macduffe was from his Mothers womb / Untimely ript.”
“They light fires under fruit trees to keep the fruit from falling untimely.”