unseasonable
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English unseasonable, unsesonable, equivalent to un- + seasonable.
Adjective
editunseasonable (comparative more unseasonable, superlative most unseasonable)
- Not in accordance with the season.
- The snow in April was unseasonable.
- 1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter V, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 44:
- There is a mania in every class to be mistaken for what it is not. Many things innocent, nay, even graceful in themselves, become injurious and awkward by unseasonable imitation.
Synonyms
edit- ill-timed, inopportune; see also Thesaurus:untimely
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