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Timely vs Apropos - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between timely and apropos

is that timely is done at the proper time while apropos is of an appropriate or pertinent nature.

As adverbs the difference between timely and apropos

is that timely is in good time; early, quickly while apropos is by the way.

As a preposition apropos is

regarding or concerning.

timely

English

Adjective

(er)
  • Done at the proper time.
  • Happening or appearing at the proper time.
  • * Milton
    • The timely dew of sleep.
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  • (obsolete) Keeping time or measure.
    • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * (done at the proper time ): well-timed * (happening or appearing at the proper time ): opportune, seasonable

    Antonyms

    * (done at the proper time ): badly timed, ill-timed * (happening or appearing at the proper time ): inopportune, unseasonable

    Derived terms

    * mistimely * overtimely * timelily * timeliness * timely-parted * untimely

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) In good time; early, quickly.
  • * 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 587:
    • ‘If I had been born more timely , he said, Rhaegar would have married me instead of Elia, and it would all have come out different.’
  • (obsolete) At the right time; seasonably.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica :
    • And this we shall more readily perform, if we timely survey our knowledge, impartially singling out those encroachments, which junior compliance and popular credulity hath admitted.

    See also

    * seasonably

    apropos

    English

    Alternative forms

    * *

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
  • * 1877 , ,
    • Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos .
  • by the way, incidental.
  • * 1877 ,
    • Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. "No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin," he observed. "Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine."

    Synonyms

    * (by the way) by the way, incidentally, incidental

    Preposition

    (English prepositions)
  • Regarding or concerning.
  • * 2011 , Jeremy Harding, "Diary", London Review of Books , 33.VII:
    • Few have the same root and branch obsession with the recent past or the avenger’s recall (‘the necessity for long memory and sarcasm in argument’, as he wrote apropos the old left intelligentsia in New York).

    Antonyms

    * malapropos

    Derived terms

    * apropos of * apropos of nothing

    Adverb

    (head)
  • By the way.
  • Timely; at a good time.

    • Anagrams

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