untimely Meaning, Definition & Usage

adjective satellite badly timed
unseasonable; wrong; ill-timed.
- an ill-timed intervention
- you think my intrusion unseasonable
- an untimely remark
- it was the wrong moment for a joke
adjective satellite uncommonly early or before the expected time
premature.
- illness led to his premature death
- alcohol brought him to an untimely end
adverb too soon; in a premature manner
prematurely.
- I spoke prematurely

Not timely; done or happening at an unnatural, unusual, or improper time; unseasonable; premature; inopportune; as, untimely frosts; untimely remarks; an untimely death.

Out of the natural or usual time; inopportunely; prematurely; unseasonably. "Let them know . . . what's untimely done." Shak.