25. time and time again over and over. See time (def. 24).
26. time of one's life Informal, good time, great time, Inf. high time, Inf. good old time, Inf a whale of a time, Si one helluva time; great fun, Si ball, Si blast.
-v. 27. schedule, fix or set a time.
28. record time, Inf. clock.
29. regulate, adjust, set, synchronize, Inf. put in sync.
30. keep time, mark time, measure time, count.
timeless, adj. everlasting, eternal, Literary, sempiternal, Archaic, eterne; perpetual, endless, unending, never-ending; ageless, deathless, dateless, immortal, undying, amaranthine, immemorial.
timely, adj. 1. opportune, seasonable, well-timed, Scot. timeous; auspicious, propitious, ripe, favorable; fortunate, lucky, happy, felicitous, convenient.
-adv. 2. opportunely, seasonably, Scot. time-ously; aupiciously, propitiously; in good time; just in time, in the nick of time, none too soon, at the eleventh hour.
timepiece, n. 1. timer, chronometer, chronoscope, chronograph, Trademark. Chronotron; metronome.
2. clock, clock watch, Horol. repeater, timekeeper, SI. ticker; watch, wrist watch, pocket watch; hourglass; sundial, horologue; water clock, clepsydra.
timeserver, n. opportunist, self-seeker, gold digger, fortune hunter, Fig. soldier of fortune, Obs. timepleaser; double-dealer, double-crosser, snake in the grass; weathercock, chameleon, trimmer, temporizer; toady, toadeater, sycophant, tufthunter, bootlicker, Inf. apple-polisher, Si brown-noser.
timeserving, adj. selfish, self-seeking, self-serving, self-indulgent; opportunistic, careerist, ambitious for oneself, Inf looking out for number one, Obs. timepleasing; venal, mercenary, fortune-hunting, gold-digging, Inf. on the make, Inf. on the take, Inf. on the hustle; untrustworthy, false-hearted, treacherous, perfidious, double-dealing, double-crossing, SI. back-stabbing; obsequious, servile, slavish, subservient.
timeworn, adj. 1. ancient, aged, archaic, antique, old; worn, the worse for wear, time-scarred, weathered, battered, Inf. beat-up; ragged, dog-eared, moth-eaten; shabby, seedy, run-down; dilapidated, decrepit, ramshackle, tumbledown, broken-down, crumbling.
2. antiquated, dated, out of date, out, passd, obsolete, Inf. old-hat; trite, hackneyed, worn thin, stale, outworn, overused.
timid, adj. 1. timorous, pusillanimous, fearful, fearsome, afraid, afraid of one's own shadow, frightened, scared, Inf. chicken, Inf. shaking in one's boots; unmanly, faint-hearted, weak-hearted, lily-livered, white-livered, having no backbone, with a backbone of banana, Inf. chicken-hearted, Inf chicken-livered, Inf. pantywaist, Inf yellow, Si yellow-bellied, SI. candy-assed; cowardly, craven, dastardly, Archaic, niddering, Archaic, caitiff.
2. shy, bashful, diffident, coy, demure, retiring, shrinking, sheepish, blushing, poor in spirit, Archaic. verecund.
timidity, n. 1. timorousness, pusillanimity, fearfulness, fearsomeness, lily-liveredness, faintheartedness, weak-heartedness, Inf. chickenheartedness, Inf. chicken-liveredness, Si yellow-belliedness; cowardice, cowardliness, dastardliness, poltroonery, cravenness; faint heart, weak knees, white feather, no backbone, a backbone of banana, Inf. chicken heart, Inf. funk, Si cold feet, Si yellow streak.