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untimely

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1. untimely - Adjective

2. untimely - Adverb

4. untimely - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Not timely; done or happening at an unnatural, unusual, or improper time; unseasonable; premature; inopportune; as, untimely frosts; untimely remarks; an untimely death.

Out of the natural or usual time; inopportunely; prematurely; unseasonably.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely. Marcus Aurelius

With spots quadrangular of diamond form, Ensanguined hearts, clubs typical of strife, And spades, the emblems of untimely graves. William Cowper

Autumn is as joyful and sweet as an untimely end. Remy de Gourmont

An untimely grave. Thomas Carew

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours; one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first. Hans Urs von Balthasar

Teenagers too often have to deal with loss and death. You had to cope with the untimely death of your brother; how can young people deal with such tragedies? Andrew Shue

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