untimeliness

Roget category 135

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.2. Relative time

#135. Untimeliness

noun

untimeliness, intempestivity^†, unseasonableness, inexpedience — unsuitable time, improper time — unreasonableness etc. adj. — evil hour — contretemps — intrusion — anachronism etc. 115.
bad time, wrong time, inappropriate time, not the right occasion, unsuitable time, inopportune time, poor timing.

verb

be ill timed etc. adj. — mistime, intrude, come amiss, break in upon — have other fish to fry — be busy, be occupied.
lose an opportunity, throw away an opportunity, waste an opportunity, neglect an opportunity etc. 460 — allow the opportunity to pass, suffer the opportunity to pass, allow the opportunity to slip, suffer the opportunity to slip, allow the opportunity to go by, suffer the opportunity to go by, allow the opportunity to escape, suffer the opportunity to escape, allow the opportunity to lapse, suffer the opportunity to lapse, allow the occasion to pass, allow the occasion to slip by — waste time etc. (be inactive) 683 — let slip through the fingers, lock the barn door after the horse is stolen.

adjective

ill-timed, mistimed — ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred — untimely, unseasonable — out of date, out of season — inopportune, timeless, intrusive, untoward, mal a propos [Fr.], unlucky, inauspicious, infelicitous, unbefitting, unpropitious, unfortunate, unfavorable — unsuited etc. 24 — inexpedient etc. 647.
unpunctual etc. (late) 133 — too late for — premature etc. (early) 132 — too soon for — wise after the event, monday morning quarterbacking, twenty-twenty hindsight.

adverb

inopportunely etc. adj. — as ill luck would have it, in an evil hour, the time having gone by, a day after the fair.

phrase

after death the doctor, after meat mustard.

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