TOO SOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does too soon mean? 

• TOO SOON (adverb)
  The adverb TOO SOON has 1 sense:

1. before the usual time or the time expected

  Familiarity information: TOO SOON used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOO SOON (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Before the usual time or the time expected

Synonyms:

ahead of time; early; too soon

Context example:

the house was completed ahead of time

 Context examples 

Well, dear, if I were you, I'd let John have more to do with the management of Demi, for the boy needs training, and it's none too soon to begin.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It is too soon for her to give up business.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I have set it down too soon, perhaps.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We had not started a moment too soon.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

If you stop treatment too soon, some bacteria may survive and re-infect you.

(Antibiotics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

It is too soon to consider vitamin C as a potential supplement for mothers.

(Heart disease risk begins in the womb, University of Cambridge)

Ah! the peace has come too soon for that younker.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The struggle was great—but it ended too soon.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If therapy stops too soon, these "persisters" start multiplying and the patient relapses, often with strains that are resistant to the drugs.

(Vitamin C Might Shorten Tuberculosis Treatment Time, Study Indicates, VOA/Steve Baragona)