ill-timed

IPA/ˌɪl ˈtaɪmd/
IPA/ˌɪl ˈtaɪmd/

ill-timed — 形容詞

1. happening or carried out at a moment that turns out to be awkward, inconvenient,

1.形容詞C1
釋義

時機不當的

在不合適的時刻發生或做出的

happening or carried out at a moment that turns out to be awkward, inconvenient, or harmful — usually because something else important is going on, or because the listener was not ready to hear it.

例句

Tariq's joke about funerals was ill-timed; his grandmother had died the week before.

Tariq 開的喪禮笑話時機很不當，他的祖母上週才剛過世。

attributive + reason clause showing why the timing was wrong

The minister's ill-timed visit to the flooded village angered families still searching for missing relatives.

部長在淹水村莊那場時機不當的訪視，激怒了仍在尋找失蹤親人的家屬。

attributive use modifying a noun event

常見搭配
  • ill-timed joke
  • ill-timed remark
  • ill-timed intervention
  • ill-timed announcement
  • ill-timed visit
同義詞
  • untimely

    more formal; often suggests something happened too early, especially death

  • inopportune

    formal; stresses the awkwardness of the moment for the speaker or hearer

  • mistimed

    stresses a misjudgement of the moment, often in sport or performance

反義詞
  • well-timed

    direct opposite — happening at exactly the right moment

  • opportune

    formal; describes a moment that is favourable for action

文法句型

ill-timed + noun

be + ill-timed

用法筆記

Frequently used attributively before a noun describing an action, remark, event, or decision (joke, comment, visit, intervention, decision, announcement, attack). The reason it was badly timed is usually given in a following clause or sentence — the adjective alone implies but does not specify the conflict.

常見錯誤

The rain was ill-timed for our picnic.
The rain came at a bad time for our picnic.
ill-timed is used of human actions, decisions, or remarks, not of weather or other natural events nobody chose.
He arrived ill-timedly.
His arrival was ill-timed.
ill-timed has no standard adverb form; rephrase using the adjective.

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常用片語

  • badly ill-timed
  • particularly ill-timed

介系詞搭配

  • ill-timed for