Antonyms for eleventh-hour

Grammar : Adj, noun

Definition of eleventh-hour

As in last-ditch : adj last-minute
As in late : adj not on time
As in eleventh hour : noun the latest possible moment

Example sentences :

There was an eleventh-hour flicker of mutiny, promptly extinguished.
Extract from : « Sonia Between two Worlds » by Stephen McKenna

But only by the skin of your teeth—an eleventh-hour arrival.
Extract from : « The Long Day » by Dorothy Richardson

And so she could not grasp the reason for that eleventh-hour summons.
Extract from : « North of Fifty-Three » by Bertrand W. Sinclair

The new man, the eleventh-hour bowler, was measuring himself with Radley.
Extract from : « Tell England » by Ernest Raymond

I believe they never turn out except for an eleventh-hour convert.
Extract from : « Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven » by Mark Twain

"She oughtn't to have come," murmured Lady Pentyre, who neither understood nor forgave her son for this eleventh-hour addition.
Extract from : « Lady Lilith » by Stephen McKenna

"No one would go to a dinner on such a night as this," rasped Mr. Van Pycke, who knew all of the eleventh-hour habits of society.
Extract from : « The Alternative » by George Barr McCutcheon

Such was the end of the bank-clerk and his eleventh-hour glories and love adventures.
Extract from : « Love affairs of the Courts of Europe » by Thornton Hall

He never studied, but more than one scholar owed success to the eleventh-hour coaching of Basil Norman.
Extract from : « The Blower of Bubbles » by Arthur Beverley Baxter

The Plainsman for July is the best number yet issued, the two eleventh-hour contributions being very cleverly introduced.
Extract from : « Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 » by Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Synonyms for eleventh-hour

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