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TOO SOON
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Before the usual time or the time expected
Example:
the house was completed ahead of time
Synonyms:
ahead of time; early; too soon
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Context examples:
Stopping the medicine too soon can allow the infection to come back and cause bacteria to become resistant to antibiotics.
(Developing novel ear infection treatments, NIH)
The mysteries of storm, and rain, and tide were revealed, and the reason for the existence of trade-winds made him wonder whether he had written his article on the northeast trade too soon.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Catherine followed her orders and turned away, but not too soon to hear her friend exclaim aloud to James, “What a sweet girl she is! I quite dote on her.”
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
I was too soon, then, since he had not extinguished his candles.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had begun to take comfort too soon, however; yesterday morning the blow fell in the very shape in which it had come upon my father.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
In case he should find it out too soon, we should thus be still ahead of him in our work of destruction; and his presence in his purely material shape, and at his weakest, might give us some new clue.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Too soon did she find herself at the drawing-room door; and after pausing a moment for what she knew would not come, for a courage which the outside of no door had ever supplied to her, she turned the lock in desperation, and the lights of the drawing-room, and all the collected family, were before her.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
I write without any intention of paining you, or humbling myself, by dwelling on wishes which, for the happiness of both, cannot be too soon forgotten; and the effort which the formation and the perusal of this letter must occasion, should have been spared, had not my character required it to be written and read.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
If March 11 is too soon to sign a contract because your lawyer has not yet given you the go-ahead to put your signature on the dotted line, then schedule the signing on the date I talked about at the beginning of your report, March 20, when Mars and Jupiter will be aligned.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Father says I needn't, it's too soon and I'd rather not.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
