timelier

Adjective

timely (comparative timelier, superlative timeliest)

1. 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, Frederick D. Lipman, Whistleblowers, Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley, →ISBN, page 201

   Synonyms:

   on time, well-timed, in time, prompt, punctual, seasonable

   Antonyms:

   ill-timed, late, backward, behindhand, belated, lated, overdue, tardy

2. 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

   Synonyms:

   opportune, seasonable

   Antonyms:

   inopportune, unseasonable, ill-timed, intempestive, mistimed, timeless, untime, untimely, untimeous

3. (obsolete) 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, book 1, canto 4, verse 4, lines 33–36

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