timelier

ADJECTIVE

at the right time

Synonyms

STRONGEST

appropriate convenient prompt proper up-to-date up-to-the-minute

STRONG

well-timed

WEAK

auspicious favorable fit fitting in good time in the nick of time judicious likely meet modern now opportune pat promising propitious prosperous punctual seasonable suitable timeous towardly with it

Antonyms

STRONGEST

improper unsuitable unsuited

WEAK

inappropriate inopportune untimely

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timelier

Williams said the September hike was designed to support “a timelier return to 2% inflation.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

“Today’s policy action will support a timelier return to the committee’s 2% goal,” the rate-setting committee said in its policy statement.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

If this had been coded correctly, a "timelier" ambulance response would "likely" have been sent.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

Yet A House of Dynamite could scarcely be timelier.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026

An event That could not timelier prove for our petition!

From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes by Kuno Francke