Word Meanings - WRONG-TIMED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Done at an improper time; ill-timed.

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• TIMAL
  The blue titmouse.
• TIMBREL
  A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity. Miriam . . . took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex. xv. 20. (more info) typmanum, Gr. tabl a drum; cf. Per. tambal
• TIMONEER
  A helmsman.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• TIME
  Tense. (more info) 1. Duration, considered independently of any system of measurement or any employment of terms which designate limited portions thereof. The time wasteth night and day. Chaucer. I know of no ideas . . . that have a better claim
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• TIMER
  A timekeeper; especially, a watch by which small intervals of time can be measured; a kind of stop watch. It is used for timing the speed of horses, machinery, etc.
• TIME SIGNATURE
  A sign at the beginning of a composition or movement, placed after the key signature, to indicate its time or meter. Also called rhythmical signature. It is in the form of a fraction, of which the denominator indicates the kind of note taken as
• TIMESERVING
  Obsequiously complying with the spirit of the times, or the humors of those in power.
• TIMBERMAN
  A man employed in placing supports of timber in a mine. Weale.
• TIMBER
  A certain quantity of fur skins, as of martens, ermines, sables, etc., packed between boards; being in some cases forty skins, (more info) Sw. timber, LG. timmer, MHG. zimber, G. zimmer, F. timbre, LL.
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• TIMBAL
  A kettledrum. See Tymbal.
• TIMIDITY
  The quality or state of being timid; timorousness; timidness.
• TIMID
  Wanting courage to meet danger; easily frightened; timorous; not bold; fearful; shy. Poor is the triumph o'er the timid hare. Thomson. Syn. -- Fearful; timorous; afraid; cowardly; pusillanimous; faint- hearted; shrinking; retiring. -- Tim"id*ly,
• TIMEPIECE
  A clock, watch, or other instrument, to measure or show the progress of time; a chronometer.
• TIMOUS
  Timely; seasonable. Bacon. -- Tim"ous*ly, adv.
• TIMEPLEASER
  One who complies with prevailing opinions, whatever they may be; a timeserver. Timepleasers, flatterers, foes to nobleness. Shak.
• TIMBURINE
  A tambourine.
• TIMELINESS
  The quality or state of being timely; seasonableness; opportuneness.
• ANTEPENULTIMATE
  Of or pertaining to the last syllable but two. -- n.
• WAKETIME
  Time during which one is awake. Mrs. Browning.
• ANTIMERE
  One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and plants.
• ANTIMONATE
  A compound of antimonic acid with a base or basic radical.
• ALTIMETER
  An instrument for taking altitudes, as a quadrant, sextant, etc. Knight.
• LEGITIMIST
  1. One who supports legitimate authority; esp., one who believes in hereditary monarchy, as a divine right. 2. Specifically, a supporter of the claims of the elder branch of the Bourbon dynasty to the crown of France.
• EXTIMULATION
  Stimulation. Things insipid, and without any extimulation. Bacon.
• KATTIMUNDOO
  A caoutchouc like substance obtained from the milky juice of the East Indian Euphorbia Kattimundoo. It is used as a cement.
• BETIME; BETIMES
  1. In good season or time; before it is late; seasonably; early. To measure life learn thou betimes. Milton. To rise betimes is often harder than to do all the day's work. Barrow. 2. In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes
• LIFETIME
  The time that life continues.
• LEGITIMATIZE
  To legitimate.
• INTIMATE
  corresponding to the compar. interior cf. F. intime. The form 1. Innermost; inward; internal; deep-seated; hearty. "I knew from intimate impulse." Milton. 2. Near; close; direct; thorough; complete. He was honored with an intimate and immediate
• ANTIMONIC
  Pertaining to, or derived from, antimony; -- said of those compounds of antimony in which this element has its highest equivalence; as, antimonic acid.
• ANTIMETABOLE
  A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.
• PENULTIMA
  See PENULT
• INTIME
  Inward; internal; intimate. Sir K. Digby.