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Adjective untimely has 2 senses
- ill-timed, ill timed, unseasonable, untimely, wrong - badly timed; "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke"
Antonym: opportune (indirect, via inopportune)
- premature, untimely - uncommonly early or before the expected time; "illness led to his premature death"; "alcohol brought him to an untimely end"
Antonym: middle (indirect, via late, early)
Antonym: late (indirect, via early, middle)
Adverbial untimely has 1 sense
- prematurely, untimely - too soon; in a premature manner; "I spoke prematurely"
Derived from adjective untimely2
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