timely

Definizione monolingua

timely

timely (comparative timelier, superlative timeliest)

1. Done at the proper time.
2. Happening or appearing at the proper time.
   • 2011 October 20, Jamie Lillywhite, “Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan”, BBC Sport:

     The athletic Walker, one of Tottenhams 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.

timely (comparative more timely, superlative most timely)

1. (archaic) In good time; early, quickly.
   • 2000, George RR Martin, A Storm of Swords, Bantam 2011, p. 587:

     ‘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.’

2. (obsolete) At the right time; seasonably.
   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica:

     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.

Definizione dizionario timely

	tempestivo
	Happening or appearing at the proper time.

conforme al tempo

esatto

opportuno

preciso

puntuale

regolare

Altri significati:

done at the proper time

(often law) At the right time.

happening or appearing at the proper time

Done at the proper time.