unseasonable


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un·sea·son·a·ble

 (ŭn-sē′zə-nə-bəl)
adj.
1. Not suitable to or appropriate for the season.
2. Not characteristic of the time of year: unseasonable weather.
3. Poorly timed; inopportune.

un·sea′son·a·ble·ness n.
un·sea′son·a·bly adv.
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unseasonable

(ʌnˈsiːzənəbəl)
adj
1. (esp of the weather) inappropriate for the season
2. untimely; inopportune
unˈseasonableness n
unˈseasonably adv
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un•sea•son•a•ble

(ʌnˈsi zə nə bəl)

adj.
1. not seasonable; being out of season: unseasonable weather.
2. untimely; inopportune.
[1400–50]
un•sea′son•a•ble•ness, n.
un•sea′son•a•bly, adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.unseasonable - not in keeping with (and usually undesirable for) the season; "a sudden unseasonable blizzard"; "unseasonable bright blue weather in November"
seasonable - in keeping with the season; "a hard but seasonable frost"; "seasonable clothes"
2.unseasonable - badly timed; "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke"
inopportune - not opportune; "arrived at a most inopportune hour"; "an inopportune visit"
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unseasonable

adjective
Not suitable for or characteristic of the season:
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Translations

unseasonable

[ʌnˈsiːznəbl] ADJ [weather] → impropio de la estación; [clothes, food] → fuera de estación
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unseasonable

adjnicht der Jahreszeit entsprechend attr; the weather is unseasonabledas Wetter entspricht nicht der Jahreszeit
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unseasonable

[ʌnˈsiːznəbl] adj (weather) → non tipico/a della stagione
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References in classic literature ?
A Crow hearing her, said: "My good friend, cease from this unseasonable boasting.
To choose time, is to save time; and an unseasonable motion, is but beating the air.
But while the captain was one day busied in deep contemplations of this kind, one of the most unlucky as well as unseasonable accidents happened to him.
There are times when it is unseasonable to touch a man on the leg.
I perceived he was bent on refusing my mediation, so very reluctantly I went up to the library, and announced the unseasonable visitor, advising that he should be dismissed till next day.
Thus they denote the folly of a servant, an omission of a child, a stone that cuts their feet, a continuance of foul or unseasonable weather, and the like, by adding to each the epithet of YAHOO.
Beware of enlisting in your vigilant fisheries any lad with lean brow and hollow eye; given to unseasonable meditativeness; and who offers to ship with the phaedon instead of Bowditch in his head.
The reader can now judge of the effect produced upon him by the abrupt and unseasonable arrival of the cardinal.
His first shout was answered by an old man within, who presently appeared at the casement, wrapping some garment round his throat as a protection from the cold, and demanded who was abroad at that unseasonable hour, wanting him.
"It may be so," said the young clergyman, indifferently, as waiving a discussion that he considered irrelevant or unseasonable. He had a ready faculty, indeed, of escaping from any topic that agitated his too sensitive and nervous temperament.
This poverty he suffers from in various ways, hunger, or cold, or nakedness, or all together; but for all that it is not so extreme but that he gets something to eat, though it may be at somewhat unseasonable hours and from the leavings of the rich; for the greatest misery of the student is what they themselves call
The Musketeer could not forget the evil reports which then prevailed, and which indeed have survived them, of the procurators of the period--meanness, stinginess, fasts; but as, after all, excepting some few acts of economy which Porthos had always found very unseasonable, the procurator's wife had been tolerably liberal--that is, be it understood, for a procurator's wife--he hoped to see a household of a highly comfortable kind.