OPPORTUNELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does opportunely mean? 

• OPPORTUNELY (adverb)
  The adverb OPPORTUNELY has 1 sense:

1. at an opportune time

  Familiarity information: OPPORTUNELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OPPORTUNELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At an opportune time

Context example:

he arrived rather opportunely just when we needed a new butler

Antonym:

inopportunely (at an inconvenient time)

Pertainym:

opportune (suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose)

 Context examples 

I began to walk slowly round, therefore, feeling in every direction to find out what this strange place could be into which I had been so opportunely precipitated.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She began well, thanks to a silent reminder that came to her unexpectedly, but most opportunely.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

OUT of the whole of that vast multitude I was one of the very few who had observed whence it was that this black hat, skimming so opportunely over the ropes, had come.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The imprisonment of Wolf Larsen had happened most opportunely, for what must have been the Indian summer of this high latitude was gone and drizzling stormy weather had set in.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)