Unseasonable
[ʌn'siːz(ə)nəb(ə)l] or [ʌn'siznəbl]
Definition
(adj.) not in keeping with (and usually undesirable for) the season; 'a sudden unseasonable blizzard'; 'unseasonable bright blue weather in November' .
Typist: Lucinda--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Not seasonable; being, done, or occurring out of the proper season; ill-timed; untimely; too early or too late; as, he called at an unseasonable hour; unseasonable advice; unseasonable frosts; unseasonable food.
Checker: Nona
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Inopportune, untimely, ill-timed, out of time, out of season.[2]. Late, too late.[3]. Premature, too early.
Editor: Noreen
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See SAFE]
Typed by Deirdre
Definition
adj. not in the proper season or time: late: ill-timed: not suited to the time of the year.—v.t. Unsea′son (Spens.) to strike unseasonably as the ear.—n. Unsea′sonableness state or quality of being unseasonable or ill-timed.—adv. Unsea′sonably in an unseasonable manner: not in due time.—adj. Unsea′soned not seasoned or ripened by time: not experienced unripe: not sprinkled with seasoning: (obs.) unseasonable: (obs.) inordinate.
Typed by Leigh
Examples
- The interruption was not unseasonable: sufficient for the day is always the evil; for this hour, its good sufficed. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The passengers do not turn out at unseasonable hours, as they used to, to get the earliest possible glimpse of strange foreign cities. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It might be worth knowing what this strange man's business was with Lightwood, or Wrayburn, or both, at such an unseasonable hour. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- How I had a grasping, avaricious wish to shut out everybody from her but myself, and to be all in all to her, at that unseasonable time of all times. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Would this be an unseasonable time, sir,' asked Mr Rugg, coaxingly, 'for me to offer an observation? Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- This is an unseasonable hour, but here is a young woman who has been making statements which render my visit necessary. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- I felt sorely urged to weep; but conscious how unseasonable such a manifestation would be, I restrained it. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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