untimely

adj

1. At an inopportune time.

   “untimely remarks”

2. Early; premature.

   “an untimely death”

   “The heroes of literary as well as civil history have been very often no less remarkable for what they have suffered, than for what they have atchieved^([sic]); and volumes have been written only to enumerate the miseries of the learned, and relate their unhappy lives, and untimely deaths.”

   “Untimely blossom! Poor, impatient thing, / ⁠That, starting rashly from the sheltering mould, / ⁠Bravest the peevish wind and sullen cold, / ⁠Mistaking thine own ardors for the spring”

adv

1. Prematurely.

   “Tell thee, Macduffe was from his Mothers womb / Untimely ript.”

   “They light fires under fruit trees to keep the fruit from falling untimely.”

   “Couldst thou go from us, in thy beauteous June, / Leaving a sense of joy untimely perished, / ⁠Of music stilled too soon?”