UNSEASONABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unseasonable mean? 

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

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

2. badly timed

  Familiarity information: UNSEASONABLE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNSEASONABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not in keeping with (and usually undesirable for) the season

Context example:

unseasonable bright blue weather in November

Antonym:

seasonable (in keeping with the season)

Derivation:

unseasonableness (being at an inappropriate time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Badly timed

Synonyms:

ill-timed; unseasonable; untimely; wrong

Context example:

it was the wrong moment for a joke

Similar:

inopportune (not opportune)

Derivation:

unseasonableness (being at an inappropriate time)

 Context examples 

While I was yet new at Doctor Strong's, she made several excursions over to Canterbury to see me, and always at unseasonable hours: with the view, I suppose, of taking me by surprise.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I felt sorely urged to weep; but conscious how unseasonable such a manifestation would be, I restrained it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

What can be the matter? it was quickly decided by Eleanor to be her eldest brother, whose arrival was often as sudden, if not quite so unseasonable, and accordingly she hurried down to welcome him.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

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.

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

How I had a grasping, avaricious wish to shut out everybody from her but myself, and to be all in all to her, at that unseasonable time of all times.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The necessity of carrying on this dialogue (his part in which was very slow; mine very quick) in a low tone, that the house might not be disturbed at an unseasonable hour, did not improve my temper; though my passion was cooling down.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)