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Definition: Ill-timed |
Ill-timedAdjective1. Badly timed; "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ill-timed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1678. (references) |
Synonyms: Ill-timedSynonyms: ill timed(p) (adj), ill-timed(a) (adj), unseasonable (adj), untimely (adj), wrong (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Untimeliness | Adjective: ill-timed, mistimed; ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred; untimely, unseasonable; out of date, out of season; inopportune, timeless, intrusive, untoward, mal a propos, unlucky, inauspicious, infelicitous, unbefitting, unpropitious, unfortunate, unfavorable; unsuited; inexpedient. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ill-timed |
| English words defined with "ill-timed": ill timed ♦ unseasonable, untimely ♦ wrong, Wrong-timed. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "ill-timed": Jeronimo. (references) |
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bob Newhart | Our voyage has received a lot of coverage in the newspaper, and I'd like to present our side of it. I think our firing on Miami Beach can best be termed ill-timed. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Ill-timed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Ill-timed" is used about 13 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 13 | 97,576 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "ill-timed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Finnish | sopimaton (improper, inappropriate, inconvenient, indecent, not fit, unfit, unsuitable, untimely). (various references) | |
Greek | παράκαιρος (inopportune). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rosszkor alkalmazott, nem időszerű (inopportune, to be out of time, wrong). (various references) | |
Manx | neuemshyragh, neuemshiragh, meehraaoil (inapt, incongruous, inept, inexpedient, inopportune, misplaced, out of place). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ill-timeday.(various references) | |
Russian | несвоевременный (ill timed, inopportune, timeless, undue, unseasonable, untimely), неподходящий (ill-suited, improper, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, ineligible, inopportune, unapt, unbecoming, unbefitting, unbeseeming, uncongenial, undesirable, unfit, unmeet, unsuitable, unsuited, unusable). (various references) | |
Thai | ผิ"เวลา. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | không phải lúc, không đúng lúc (improper, inapposite, inopportune, irrelative, unapt, unduly, unseasonable). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-i-i-l-l-m-t" | |
-1 letter: delimit, limited. | |
-2 letters: illite, lilied, lilted, milled, millet, milted, tilled. | |
-3 letters: demit, imide, limed, limit, medii, mille, teiid, tilde, tiled, timed, timid. | |
-4 letters: deil, deli, dell, delt, diel, diet, dill, dime, dite, edit, emit, idem, idle, imid, item, lied, lilt, lime, lite, meld, mell, melt, midi, mild, mile, mill, milt, mite, tell, tide, tied, tile, till, time. | |
-5 letters: del, die, dim, dit, eld, ell, elm, ill, led, lei, let, lid, lie, lit, med, mel, met, mid, mil, ted, tel, tie, til. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-i-i-l-l-m-t" | |
+1 letter: limitedly. | |
+2 letters: multiplied. | |
+3 letters: illuminated, limelighted, unlimitedly. | |
+4 letters: multiskilled. | |
+5 letters: diametrically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6C 6C 2D 74 69 6D 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101100 01101100 00101101 01110100 01101001 01101101 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I l l - t i m e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006C 006C 002D 0074 0069 006D 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)437878158675797170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Spoken | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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