untime

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The absence of time; timelessness. countable,uncountable
    — Actually, his apocalypse is a reverse cosmogony: he features himself as a monstrous Leviathan swallowing all the faithful, and the Untime celebrated by "unceasing" clock-chiming seals the reign of death and the return to pre-cosmogonic chaos. Death, not life, is what the imam has to offer to the faithful of Desh.
  2. A wrong time; an unsuitable or improper time. India,South,countable,often,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To cause to be done at the wrong time. transitive
    — […] which untimes the pleasant melodies of musical harmony, […]
形容词 adj.
  1. Untimely. India,South
    — Untime cravings

词形变化

untimes plural un-time alternative untimes present,singular,third-person untiming participle,present untimed participle,past untimed past un-time alternative more untime comparative most untime superlative un-time alternative

词汇关系

近义词

词源

词源 1
From Middle English untime, untyme, ontyme, from Old English untīma (“an unseasonable time”), from Proto-Germanic *untīmô, equivalent to un- + time. Cognate with Old Norse útími (dialectal Norwegian otime).
词源 2
From Middle English untime, from Old English untīme.
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