OPPORTUNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does opportune mean? 

• OPPORTUNE (adjective)
  The adjective OPPORTUNE has 1 sense:

1. suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose

  Familiarity information: OPPORTUNE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPPORTUNE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose

Context example:

an opportune time to receive guests

Similar:

good; right; ripe (most suitable or right for a particular purpose)

seasonable; timely; well-timed; well timed (done or happening at the appropriate or proper time)

Also:

advantageous; favorable; favourable (giving an advantage)

Antonym:

inopportune (not opportune)

Derivation:

opportuneness (timely convenience)

opportunity (a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances)

 Context examples 

Although in one instance the bearers of not good tidings, Mr. and Mrs. Weston's visit this morning was in another respect particularly opportune.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

If any remark should occur to you, you can reserve it for some more opportune time.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The attack upon the Maeterlinck school could not have been made at a more opportune moment.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Jupiter is coming at an opportune time, because for the past two years, you’ve hosted Saturn, the planet that compresses and shrinks everything it touches, in your home sector.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

You come to give me the benefit of your sober judgement at a most opportune time.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His explanation of his sudden and opportune appearance was simplicity itself, for, finding that he could get away from London, he determined to head me off at the next obvious point of my travels.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Involuntarily he glanced up and around to see if there were any trace of those opportune levin-flashes and thunderbolts which, in the Acta Sanctorum, were wont so often to cut short the loose talk of the scoffer.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An opportune double knock at the door, which I knew well from old experience in Windsor Terrace, and which nobody but Mr. Micawber could ever have knocked at that door, resolved any doubt in my mind as to their being my old friends.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)