Synonyms for unseasonable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : uhn-see-zuh-nuh-buh l
Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈsi zə nə bəl


Définition of unseasonable

Origin :
  • mid-15c., "inopportune," from un- (1) "not" + seasonable. In reference to weather, "not appropriate to the time of year," it is recorded from 1510s.
  • adj out of season
Example sentences :
  • These tears are unseasonable; things have not come to that yet.
  • Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
  • But this was unseasonable, it ought to be fairly cool at the time of year.
  • Extract from : « From Edinburgh to India & Burmah » by William G. Burn Murdoch
  • It was an unseasonable tempest, scarcely to be looked for at that time of year.
  • Extract from : « Blow The Man Down » by Holman Day
  • There is a time for jesting, and a time when jokes are unseasonable.
  • Extract from : « Wit and Wisdom of Don Quixote » by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
  • Beware how you stir unattended, my dear Francisco, at unseasonable hours.
  • Extract from : « Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf » by George W. M. Reynolds
  • My intrusion is unseasonable, perhaps, but none the less unavoidable.
  • Extract from : « The Doomsman » by Van Tassel Sutphen
  • It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their name to eat an oyster.
  • Extract from : « Familiar Quotations » by John Bartlett
  • And is this what you have interrupted me to say, at this unseasonable hour, Joel Pepper?
  • Extract from : « Five Little Peppers at School » by Margaret Sidney
  • Indeed, they did not seem to be at all affected by this prolonged and unseasonable tempest.
  • Extract from : « The Prairie Traveler » by Randolph Marcy
  • As she said these unseasonable words her eyes had assumed a strange expression.
  • Extract from : « Mauprat » by George Sand

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