untimely

Etymology

un- + timely

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; and volumes have been written only to enumerate the miseries of the learned, and relate their unhappy lives, and untimely deaths. c. 1779–81, Samuel Johnson, “Savage”, in The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets, volume 3, published 1794
   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 1898, Florence Earle Coates, Before the Hour

adv

1. Prematurely.
   Couldst thou go from us, in thy beauteous June, / Leaving a sense of joy untimely perished, / ⁠Of music stilled too soon? 1916, Florence Earle Coates, In Memory of Caroline Furness Jayne