Thesaurus:just in time

Thesaurus

just in time

English

Adverb

Sense: at the last possible moment

Synonyms

• at the eleventh hour (idiomatic)
• in pudding time (obsolete, idiomatic)
• in the nick of time (idiomatic)
• just in time
• last-minute
• not a minute too soon (idiomatic)
• under the wire (idiomatic)

Antonyms

• behind time
• late    [⇒ thesaurus]

Hypernyms

• eventually    [⇒ thesaurus]
• in time

Further reading

• “132A. punctuality” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “just in time” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.