Synonyms for untimely
- adjective
Most common
premature hasty unseasonable ill-timed mistimed inopportune malapropos
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Premature — early; premature
premature, early, unseasonable, hasty, previous, precocious, inconvenient, forward, precipitate
2. Ill-timed
ill-timed, mistimed, wrong, intempestive dated rare
Other
inopportune, malapropos, untimeless dated
Definitions
- adj. 1
Early; premature.
- adj. 2
At an inopportune time.
Related words
- Word family
- untimeliness
- Is a kind of
- inexpedient unsuitable
Example sentences
- premature It is premature to put the plan into practice now.
- hasty Don't draw a hasty conclusion from what you see now.
- unseasonable There is no unseasonable weather, there is only a wrong choice of clothes.
- inopportune A guest at an inopportune time is a heavy burden.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| untimely | steady | |
| premature | steady | |
| hasty | steady | |
| unseasonable | steady | |
| mistimed | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- early2, wrong1, hasty2
- 7 letters
- forward2
- 8 letters
- previous3, mistimed
- 9 letters
- premature3
- 10 letters
- precocious3, malapropos, untimeless
- 11 letters
- precipitate4, inopportune4
- 12 letters
- inconvenient4, unseasonable, intempestive
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (early2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- intempestif
- Italiano
- intempestivo
- Deutsch
- unzeitig