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to arrive five minutes apart. 23 schedule, set, organize,
adjust, fix: She timed her entrance to coincide exactly with
the crash of the cymbals.
time-honoured
adj. established, traditional, habitual, customary, rooted,
conventional, age-old, set, fixed; venerable, venerated,
respected, revered, honoured: We observed the time-honoured
custom of kissing the Blarney Stone.
timeless adj. eternal, everlasting, immortal, undying, endless,
unending, ceaseless, abiding, deathless, ageless, changeless,
unchanged, immutable, unchanging, permanent, indestructible: He
was enraptured by the timeless beauty of the heavens.
timely adj. punctual, prompt, well-timed, propitious, opportune,
convenient, favourable, auspicious: We welcomed the timely
arrival of our rescuers.
time-serving
adj. self-seeking, self-serving, selfish, self-indulgent,
ambitious, mercenary, venal, greedy, profit-oriented,
fortune-hunting, gold-digging, opportunistic, hypocritical,
obsequious, sycophantic, toadying, toad-eating, boot-licking,
subservient, Colloq on the make, on the take, Slang US out for
numero uno, Taboo slang brown-nosing: Members of the party were
known to be time-serving and untrustworthy.
timetable n. schedule, calendar, curriculum, programme, agenda, Chiefly
Brit diary: My timetable doesn't allow for long lunches.
time-worn adj. ageing, old, tired, worn, time-scarred, decrepit,
dilapidated, tumbledown, ramshackle, run-down, dog-eared,
ragged, moth-eaten, threadbare, seedy, shabby, archaic, antique,
well-worn, worn out, pass‚, broken-down, old-fashioned,
out-dated, dated, antiquated, ancient, obsolescent, obsolete,
stereotyped, stereotypic(al), hackneyed, stale, trite, overused,
Colloq old hat: She went into her time-worn routine about two
living as cheaply as one.
timid adj. shy, retiring, modest, coy, bashful, diffident, timorous,
fearful, apprehensive, mousy, scared, frightened, nervous,
cowardly, pusillanimous, craven, Colloq chicken-hearted, yellow,