timely
/ˈtaɪm.li/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.85 in modern English
11
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6
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2
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6
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Meaning
adj
Done at the proper time or within the proper time limits; prompt.
adj
Happening or appearing at the proper time.
adv
In compliance with applicable time limits.
Example Sentences
- "If the whistleblower submitted a timely response, pursuant to Step 9, the Claims Review Staff will consider the issues, along with any supporting documentation, and make its Proposed Final Determination."
- "[…] and the timely dew of sleep, / Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines / Our eye-lids […]"
- "There are people, I know, to be found, / Who say and apparently think / That sorrow and care may be drowned / By a timely consumption of drink."
- "The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians."
- "High lifted up were many loftie towres, / And goodly galleries farre over laid, / Full of faire windowes and delightful bowres; / And on the top a Diall told the timely howres."
- "If I had been born more timely, he said, Rhaegar would have married me instead of Elia, and it would all have come out different."
Etymology
From Middle English timely, tymely, timliche, from Old English *tīmlīc (adjective) and tīmlīċe (“in good time; timely; soon”, adverb), equivalent to time + -ly. Cognate with Danish timelig, Swedish timlig, Icelandic tímalegur, tímanlegur.
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timely-parted