untimely

Definitions

1. Untimely, unseasonable.
2. At an inopportune time.
3. Early; premature.

Equivalents

Examples

“untimely remarks”

“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.”

“Untimely blossom! Poor, impatient thing, / ⁠That, starting rashly from the sheltering mould, / ⁠Bravest the peevish wind and sullen cold, / ⁠Mistaking thine own⟳ ardors for the spring⟳”

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