timely
Done at the proper time or within the proper time limits; prompt.
Adjective
- Done at the proper time or within the proper time limits; prompt.
- 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. - 2012,...
Synonyms: on time well-timed in time prompt punctual seasonable timely
Antonyms: ill-timed late backward behindhand belated lated overdue tardy
- Happening or appearing at the proper time.
- […] and the timely dew of sleep, / Now falling with soft slumbrous weight, inclines / Our eye-lids […] - 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, book 4, lines 614–616:
- 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. - 1891, J.K.S., Drinking Song:
- 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...
Synonyms: opportune seasonable
Antonyms: inopportune unseasonable ill-timed intempestive mistimed timeless untime untimely untimeous
- Keeping time or measure.
- 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. - 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene,...
Origin
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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well-timed tempestive opportune seasonable tidy timeful timely timeous heaven-sent timesome
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mistimely overtimely pretimely timelily timeliness timely-parted untimely
Adverb
- In good time; early, quickly.
- 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. - 2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Daenerys [Targaryen]”, in A Storm of...
- At the right time; seasonably.
- And this we shall more readily perform, if we timely survey our knowledge, impartially singling out those encroachments, which junior compliance and popular credulity hath admitted. - 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia...
- In compliance with applicable time limits.
- On May 14, 1997, the jury convicted the defendant, who currently is serving a fifteen-month sentence. The defendant timely appeals. - 1998, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, US v. Merino-Balderrama:
- […] § 2255's one-year limitation period starts to run when the time for seeking such review expires. Under this rule, Clay's § 2255 petition was timely filed. - 2003, United States Supreme Court, Clay v. United States: