Seasonable
['siːz(ə)nəb(ə)l] or ['siznəbl]
Definition
(adj.) in keeping with the season; 'a hard but seasonable frost'; 'seasonable clothes' .
Checker: Lorenzo--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain.
Checked by Barry
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Timely, opportune, fit, convenient, suitable, appropriate, APROPOS, to the purpose.
Editor: Matt
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Convenient, fit, grateful, welcome, timely, suitable, periodical, normal,opportune
ANT:Ungrateful, unwelcome, untimely, unsuitable, unexpected, abnormal, inopportune,unseasonable
Checker: Marge
Examples
- Her seasonable bounty consoled many a poor family against the coming holiday, and supplied many a child with a new frock or bonnet for the occasion. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The fire looks very seasonable in this weather. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And I was that nearest person--brimful of comfort, charged to overflowing with seasonable and reviving words. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- It is not a seasonable hour to intrude on Mr. Oliver, answered St. John. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Very seasonable. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- That is a seasonable admonition, said Mr. Casaubon; but now we will pass on to the house, lest the young ladies should be tired of standing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It is my rule never to make unnecessary mysteries, and never to set people suspecting me for want of a little seasonable candour on my part. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Yees, yees, very fine weather, and seasonable for the time of year, Sir Pitt answered, who had suddenly grown deaf. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- That was a very seasonable pamphlet of his on the Catholic Question:--a deanery at leaSt. They owe him a deanery. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Not a seasonable hour! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Checker: Marge