| 单词 | untimely |
| 释义 | untimely (once / 2003 pages) adjadv Something untimely has occurred prematurely, and it's usually not good news. If you hear about someone's untimely death, it must mean it was an unexpected death. When something is timely, it happens at the right time. When something is untimely, it means the opposite: it happened at an unfortunate or unexpected time. Usually, this means it happened much too early. The most common use of this term is probably in discussing someone’s untimely death, meaning they died young. Other disasters that happen to young people might be described as untimely as well. WORD FAMILYuntimely: untimeliness+/mistime: mistimed, mistimes, mistiming/overtime: overtimes/time: mistime, overtime, timed, timeless, timely, timer, times, timing/timed: ill-timed, timedly/timeless: timelessly, timelessness/timely: timelier, timeliest, timelily, timeliness, untimely/timer: timers/times: timeses/timing: timings USAGE EXAMPLESOn the drive home, Bob was schooling me again in all things Kiwi: “Pop your clogs” means “to die an untimely death.” New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Slaveholders, who collected cash after a slave’s untimely death. New York Times(Dec 23, 2016) Researchers found that cancers were the top cause of untimely death among Americans, and the second largest overall killer. Wall Street Journal(Dec 13, 2016) 1adj badly timed an untimely remark Syn ill-timed, unseasonable, wrong inopportune not opportune 2adj uncommonly early or before the expected time alcohol brought him to an untimely end Syn premature early at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time 3adv too soon; in a premature manner Syn prematurely |
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