Local English word record

ill-timed

adjective · 1 sense

badly timed

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Examples

  • an ill-timed intervention
  • you think my intrusion unseasonable
  • an untimely remark
  • it was the wrong moment for a joke

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Synonyms

unseasonable, untimely, wrong

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