SEASONABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does seasonable mean? 

• SEASONABLE (adjective)
  The adjective SEASONABLE has 2 senses:

1. in keeping with the season

2. done or happening at the appropriate or proper time

  Familiarity information: SEASONABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SEASONABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In keeping with the season

Context example:

seasonable clothes

Antonym:

unseasonable (not in keeping with (and usually undesirable for) the season)

Derivation:

seasonableness (being at the right time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Done or happening at the appropriate or proper time

Synonyms:

seasonable; timely; well-timed; well timed

Context example:

the book's publication was well timed

Similar:

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

Derivation:

seasonableness (being at the right time)

 Context examples 

The fire looks very seasonable in this weather.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"It is not a seasonable hour to intrude on Mr. Oliver," answered St. John.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Quite seasonable; and extremely fortunate we may think ourselves that it did not begin yesterday, and prevent this day's party, which it might very possibly have done, for Mr. Woodhouse would hardly have ventured had there been much snow on the ground; but now it is of no consequence.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I fixed in the stumps so artificially, scraping and sloping them with my knife toward the points, that I made a very tolerable comb; which was a seasonable supply, my own being so much broken in the teeth, that it was almost useless: neither did I know any artist in that country so nice and exact, as would undertake to make me another.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The blowing of the coach-horn in the yard was a seasonable diversion, which made me get up and hesitatingly inquire, in the mingled pride and diffidence of having a purse (which I took out of my pocket), if there were anything to pay.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He scarcely ever spoke to her, and the assiduous attentions which he had been so sensible of himself were transferred for the rest of the day to Miss Lucas, whose civility in listening to him was a seasonable relief to them all, and especially to her friend.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Not a seasonable hour!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

One great excellency in this tribe, is their skill at prognostics, wherein they seldom fail; their predictions in real diseases, when they rise to any degree of malignity, generally portending death, which is always in their power, when recovery is not: and therefore, upon any unexpected signs of amendment, after they have pronounced their sentence, rather than be accused as false prophets, they know how to approve their sagacity to the world, by a seasonable dose.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)