untime
untime noun: the absence of time; timelessness.
Noun
untime (countable and uncountable, plural untimes)
- The absence of time; timelessness.
- Actually, his apocalypse is a reverse cosmogony: he features himself as a monstrous Leviathan swallowing all the faithful, and the Untime celebrated by "unceasing" clock-chiming seals the reign of death and the return to pre-cosmogonic chaos. Death, not life, is what the imam has to offer to the...1999, Pierre François, Inlets of the Soul
- The body of Al-Lat has shrivelled on the grass, leaving behind only a dark stain; and now every clock in the capital city of Desh begins to chime, and goes on unceasingly, beyond twelve, beyond twenty-four, beyond one thousand and one, announcing the end of Time, the hour that is beyond measuring...2000, Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
- Synonyms:
- atemporality
- A wrong time; an unsuitable or improper time.
Verb
untime (third-person singular simple present untimes, present participle untiming, simple past and past participle untimed)
Adjective
untime (comparative more untime, superlative most untime)
- Untimely.
- Untime cravings
- Synonyms:
- ill-timed, inopportune
untime meaning in Tamil
untime in Tamil
- அசந்தர்ப்பம், பொருத்தமற்ற நேரம்
Examples of untime in a sentence
- Later though, after about two weeks in untime, Finn began to get confused, and my job changed to simply keeping him straight.2011, Adeline Radloff, Sidekick:
- While everyone else is frozen in untime Katie is unaffected and therefore acts as his sidekick in his efforts to avert disaster, death and devastation—[…]2015, Judith Inggs, Transition and Transgression:
Synonyms of untime
Forms of untime
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | untimes |
| alternative form | un-time |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | untimes |
| present participle | untiming |
| past participle | untimed |
| past | untimed |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more untime |
| superlative | most untime |
Origin of untime
From Middle English untime, untyme, ontyme, from Old English untīma (“an unseasonable time”), from Proto-Germanic *untīmô, equivalent to un- + time. Cognate with Old Norse útími (dialectal Norwegian otime).
From Middle English untime, from Old English untīme.
Questions about untime
- What does untime mean?
- Untime means the absence of time; timelessness.
- What is untime in Tamil?
- Untime in Tamil is அசந்தர்ப்பம், பொருத்தமற்ற நேரம். See Untime meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use untime in a sentence?
- Later though, after about two weeks in untime, Finn began to get confused, and my job changed to simply keeping him straight.
- What part of speech is untime?
- Untime can be a noun, a verb or an adjective.
- What is the plural of untime?
- The plural of untime is untimes.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: untime (page history and authors); untime (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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