What's the difference between timeless and untimely?

Timeless


Definition:

  • (a.) Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.
  • (a.) Done or occurring before the proper time; premature; immature; as, a timeless grave.
  • (a.) Having no end; interminable; unending.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Some of what I was churned up about seemed only to do with me, and some of it was timeless, a classic midlife shock and recalibration.
  • (2) Even before she gets to the Timeless premiere, the Mail Online has run two news stories on her that day: the first detailing what she was wearing in the morning, the second furnishing a grateful world with the news that she'd subsequently changed her outfit and taken her sunglasses off.
  • (3) And anyway, if her fictional world is so timeless, why has it gone in and out of fashion?
  • (4) His bestselling book is The Annotated Alice, a timeless compendium of footnotes to the two Alice books, and a decade ago he wrote a sequel to The Wizard Of Oz in which Dorothy and friends go to Manhattan.
  • (5) Scarcely a single witness had seen more than one Velázquez, and many testified to the extraordinary surprise of this one, the face of the long-dead prince flashing up into a timeless present.
  • (6) The actor's slightly imperious manner and timeless face suited period roles.
  • (7) One drawback of the timelessness of Bond – maintained by a movie franchise that keeps 007 in a permanent present – is how easy it is to forget that Fleming was writing in, and therefore about, a very specific period.
  • (8) Playhouse Presents … Timeless is on Thursday 19 June at 9pm on Sky Arts
  • (9) The Doctors Mayo were strategic thinkers when it came to National Defense, and it is with a feeling of almost haunting prophetic significance to consider their timeless wisdom on preparedness as a means to ensure peace.
  • (10) In the meantime, its fortunes rest on the British public's insatiable appetite for reality TV shows – and the timeless televisual appeal of dancing dogs.
  • (11) You might have read a couple of articles in fashion magazines of late attempting to big up the DD look, no doubt with references to denim's "timelessness", "1950s teenage sense of freedom" and, lest we forget, "Americana".
  • (12) Under marihuana the stories had a timeless, non-narrative quality, with greater discontinuity in thought sequence and more frequent inclusion of contradictory ideas.
  • (13) A short visit to a medical consulting room as it may have looked one hundred years ago, illustrates some aspects of medical practice of this time, outlines in scraps and fragments an idea of this medicine and tries to encourage reflexions about contemporary and timeless problems of medical practice.
  • (14) Stores such as Cos for cool, offbeat minimalism or Jane Shepherdson's Whistles, where Celine-style trousers sit alongside timeless workwear, have upped the ante.
  • (15) Because the terrorists can only succeed if they swell their ranks and alienate America from our allies, and they will never be able to do that if we stay true to who we are; if we forge tough and durable approaches to fighting terrorism that are anchored in our timeless ideals.
  • (16) Shakespeare refuses to take sides, and that's why it works so timelessly.
  • (17) The timeless modernity and topicality of Rudolf Virchow's postulations on tumor pathology is based on his general conclusions which as key propositions have retained general validity throughout more than a century.
  • (18) But she's not bad as the partner of an Iraq-bound soldier in Timeless: perhaps a bit plummier than you might expect a squaddie's wife required to live with her irascible great-grandmother in a tiny house to be, but certainly nothing like the disaster the world has come to expect from supermodels demonstrating their polymath abilities.
  • (19) "Then you have this classic repertoire of great music that feels like it's coming from this other, timeless place.
  • (20) This procedure brings forcibly to the fore issues of separation and individuation, in the psychological context of the ultimate termination of life; it counteracts passive, timeless waiting for change to come without the assertion of one's own will and action, and it highlights a variety of ways people characteristically behave with respect to endings.

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.