Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Occurring at a suitable or opportune time; well-timed.
- adj. Archaic Coming too early; premature.
- adv. In time; opportunely.
- adv. Archaic Early; soon.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Seasonable; opportune; just in time; in good time.
- Early.
- Passing, as time.
- Keeping time or measure.
- Early; soon.
- In good time; opportunely.
- Leisurely.
Wiktionary
- adj. Done at the proper time.
- adj. Happening or appearing at the proper time.
- adv. archaic In good time; early, quickly.
- adv. obsolete At the right time; seasonably.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable.
- adj. Keeping time or measure.
- adv. Early; soon; in good season.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. done or happening at the appropriate or proper time
- adv. at an opportune time
- adj. before a time limit expires
Examples
“The phrase "timely manner" still could mean that they paid interest on their Tiffany card.”
The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post
“In one 2006 referral regarding SAC, NASD urged government regulators to probe what it called "timely trading" by SAC and two other hedge funds in shares of Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc.”
“President Bush today promised to treat each and every proposal from the Iraq Study Group seriously and to act in what he called a timely fashion.”
“President Bush says the Study Group's report gives a very tough assessment of the situation in Iraq and he says he'll act on it in what he calls a timely fashion.”
“President Bush immediately declared that he will choose a new nominee in what he called a timely manner.”
“You remember last week when John Murtha proposed what he called a timely redeployment.”
“The NCSA said it still plans to pursue a petascale computer in what it called "timely manner" and is working with the National Science Foundation.”
“Perhaps most timely is a five chapter comparative analysis of anonymity and the law which contrasts the rules in the U.S.,”
“With all that's happened in Rome over the past few weeks, how timely is your new novel, The Third Secret?”
“That must make this book one of the rare popular novels to remain timely 50 years after publication.”
Lists
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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Words that look like adverbs but aren't
manly, womanly, ungainly, slovenly, homily, costly, dastardly, family, sparkly, wrinkly, oily, orderly and 69 more...
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GMAT
part of speech, frown, brow, immensely, immense, incomprehensible, toil, concision, concise, proper noun, hyphenated, dash and 190 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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happy accidents
kismet, karmic, coincidence, serendipitous, fortuitous, unforeseen, haphazard, opportune, perchance, unbidden, lackadaisical, rudderless and 8 more...
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common words
mei- root words, a changing mixture
common, communion, community, meatus, conge, permeate, irremeable, mew, molt, mutate, commute, permute and 87 more...
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Old English Spelling Bee List
need to know these words!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
quell, bower, keen, alderman, cleanser, sallow, gristle, nestle, abide, gospel, nether, farthing and 84 more...
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onursaka In American English (for GMAT) timely is an adjective, not an adverb. do it in a timely manner. Jan 27, 2012