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Meaning of untimely | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR C2 Specialized
ʌnˈtaɪmli

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”

CEFR level

C2
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This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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