What's the difference between inopportune and untimely?

Inopportune


Definition:

  • (a.) Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable; as, an inopportune occurrence, remark, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To prevent inopportune switching, HO transcription is restricted to a specific period in the haploid cell cycle, which is just after, and dependent on, the start of the mitotic cell cycle.
  • (2) The Vatican's spokesman Federico Lombardi insisted the rite took place in "a specific situation in which excluding the girls would have been inopportune in light of the simple aim of communicating a message of love to all".
  • (3) This makes demolition surgery, which is not often well accepted by the patient, inopportune.
  • (4) Inopportune coagulation of blood in vessels is prevented by defense mechanisms, in which plasma inhibitors play an important role.
  • (5) Other morphological radiographic appearances include a risk of misinterpretation and thus inopportune, inadequate or hazardous operative procedures.
  • (6) While Mark Wallinger's Ebbsfleet horse is eagerly awaited, Manchester's B of the Bang, its steel shards falling at disconcertingly inopportune moments, failed.
  • (7) An allergic reaction could occur at a most inopportune time.
  • (8) Indeed, Vidal claimed the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 occurred because the Bush administration was "incompetent" and Bush himself was "inactive and inopportune".
  • (9) All of which feels like an inopportune context for Keith Bristow, the director general of the new National Crime Agency , to request more police powers.
  • (10) Metastases of secreting tumors are verily more rare, nevertheless they are indubitably a major indication for embolisation, since good results are achieved concerning inopportune secretions and repeat embolisations possible are a super advantage.
  • (11) Due to a perfect confluence of inopportune circumstances, I have not been able to get the Talkboard standings from last week tallied up just yet.
  • (12) I lose count of the many times I have been reprimanded for an inopportune frown, eye-roll, or death stare (teachers found the latter particularly unnerving).
  • (13) The timing of the event, the last of three which took place during the week, was seen as inopportune, given the killing of a NYPD officer just days before .
  • (14) Because of this favorable outcome, all inopportune treatments must be avoided, and abstention is the best attitude.
  • (15) Nevertheless, the need to be away from school such as during an important examination, or from work, may be inopportune.
  • (16) The today usual diagnostic procedures in the postoperative follow up control are able to detect liver metastases in most cases only in an inopportune stage for therapy.
  • (17) "It may seem inopportune to be questioning growth while we are faced with daily news of the effects of recession, but allegiance to growth is the most dominant feature of an economic and political system that has led us to the brink of disaster.
  • (18) The remarks, which are unusual in a country where courts do not generally comment on cases before publishing their written reasoning, were reportedly described as "inopportune" by the chairman of the judges' governing body, the CSM.
  • (19) Therefore the separation of the healthy sibling takes frequently an inopportune course and should be adjusted by psychological psychiatric intervention within primary prevention.
  • (20) This tendency, apparently inopportune from the aspects of caries prevention, ensures, however, a permanent low F- level above the enamel surface.

Untimely


Definition:

  • (a.) Not timely; done or happening at an unnatural, unusual, or improper time; unseasonable; premature; inopportune; as, untimely frosts; untimely remarks; an untimely death.
  • (adv.) Out of the natural or usual time; inopportunely; prematurely; unseasonably.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Conscious hip-hop may have once died an untimely death, but its resurrection is good news for everyone, especially if you've got shares in Eastpak.
  • (2) The nitrogen : creatinine ratio in an untimed urine sample was closely related to the ration in the 24-hr urine (r = 0.914).
  • (3) The ability of an albumin-to-creatinine ratio, measured in a single untimed urine specimen, to indicate the likelihood of developing overt diabetic nephropathy was determined in 439 Pima Indians (134 men, 305 women) aged 25 years or older with non-insulin-dependent diabetes.
  • (4) The failure of bulbar rhythmogenic mechanisms to maintain an orderly and synchronous recruitment of respiratory drive, which led to untimely and chaotic activations of respiratory muscles, was apparently the underlying cause of various ataxic breathing patterns and a reduced ventilatory efficiency.
  • (5) Twitter and Facebook are plumbed in to compare your scores to friends, and there is also an untimed mode for practice.
  • (6) By pneumonia or granulation in the anastomosis region 11 rats died or had to be sacrificed untimely.
  • (7) The law also penalised untimely and discriminatory layoffs.
  • (8) Not withstanding the concern for the health consequences of early sexual activity, early untimely pregnancy results in expulsion from school at the rate of 10% annually in Kenya and economic advancement practice, and reproductive health of 1513 females and 1803 males aged 12-19 was conducted in 1985 in 7 rural and 2 urban districts and represents the 8 major ethnic groups in Kenya.
  • (9) First of all, conditions are listed in which the occurrence of a single case of disease or disability or a single untimely death would justify asking, "Why did it happen?"
  • (10) The patient with multiple fractures presents complex modifications in the biochemical blood and biohumoral pictures and untimely intervention may definitely compromize the normal automatic or artificial resolution of metabolic and electrolytic imbalances.
  • (11) No.” As it is, Gareth Bale’s untimely buttock injury and Suárez’s lack of match fitness have postponed the ultimate in forward-line set-tos, but this is still Leo Messi against Cristiano Ronaldo, Neymar against Karim Benzema, with Suárez, James Rodríguez, Ivan Rakitic and Toni Kroos all entering the frenzy for the first time.
  • (12) Atheromatous disease of the arteries is progressive and often results in untimely morbidity and premature death.
  • (13) Based on our experience and on the experience of others in the treatment of such fractures, we have realized that every poorly executed manual reposition, inadequate and too long an immobilization, untimely and delayed operation, leaves serious consequences not only on physical activity but also on the psychologic development.
  • (14) In dead patients (average age 70 years) there is a trend of a risk to an untimely death in the presence of pathologic AT III-activity (despite a good anticoagulation of an individual mean quick test from greater than or equal to 0.20 to less than or equal to 0.30) or a bad anticoagulation (mean individual quick tests greater than or equal to 0.30 to 0.35), but a normal AT III-activity.
  • (15) The analysis of the data on 744 patients with thyroid tumors showed inadequate examination to be the main cause of untimely diagnosis of cancer of the organ.
  • (16) Therefore, in the authors opinion the performed kill of the cross Limousine and Hereford bulls as well as Limousine heifers, is somewhat untimely and unreasonable.
  • (17) Marguerite Champendal (1870-1928), one of the first Swiss nationals to graduate, created a school for nurses that she directed until her untimely death.
  • (18) Therapy should be given with a great deal of caution in patients with decompensated liver disease, as one may precipitate the untimely demise of the patient even though viral replication is decreased.
  • (19) Drawing in a sketchbook,” he wrote, “teaches first to look, and then to observe and finally perhaps to discover … and it is then that inspiration might come.” It is particularly untimely for the museum to have introduced the diktat when it is about to unveil an exhibition devoted to the act of copying at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
  • (20) The MRT was administered under standard, timed conditions and under untimed conditions.