unseasonaladj.
1. = unseasonable adj. 1a.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adjective]
untimec1000
untidya1225
untimesa1300
out of season1377
undue1398
out of time1483
untimeousa1500
importunate1529
inopportune1533
importunea1535
unconvenable1542
intempestive1548
unseasonable1561
untimeable1570
out-of-season1574
untimely1581
unseasoned1589
baldc1590
timeless1590
melancounterous?1602
untimelessa1607
unopportune1653
mistimelyc1680
mistimed1687
ill-timed1692
ill-seasoned1843
unchancy1860
intempestuous1885
unseasonal1935
1935 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin i. i. 33 Our impulses are unseasonal and image-ridden.
1963 Sunday Times 1 Dec. 4/6 Mr Wheeler calls it a ‘contrived’ by-election, brought about by Sir Wavell Wakefield's unseasonal translation to the Lords.
1978 Washington Post 1 Dec. a1/5 Shell Oil Co. said today that it will begin rationing all brands of its gasoline... Shell..blamed the shortage on an unseasonal ‘dramatic increase in demand’.
1984 Oxf. Times 9 Mar. 5/1 Two youths, whose Christmas Eve antics in a town centre caused unseasonal scenes between police and revellers.
2. = unseasonable adj. 3.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adjective] > unseasonable
unseasonablea1513
ill-seasoned1635
unseasonal1937
1937 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 90 758/1 Various natural causes are given as reasons for poor production, including freezes, tropical storms, and unseasonal precipitation.
1975 Facts on File Yearbk. (1976) 35 172/2 Heavy flooding due to unseasonal rains in southern Thailand left 131 people dead and many rubber plantations..destroyed.
1985 Christian Sci. Monitor 28 June 20/2 The premier tournament fights its own match against the powerful but unseasonal English weather.
Derivatives
unˈseasonally adv.
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > [adverb]
in (earlier on) untimec897
untimelyc1200
out of timea1325
in unseasona1400
importunelyc1425
in an evil (also ill, etc.) hour1490
importunatelya1492
at ungaina1500
untimeously1513
intempestively1548
out of season1548
timeless1586
unseasonably1586
inopportunely1609
unseasonablea1634
unopportunely1651
timelessly1673
unseasonally1941
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [adverb] > in an unseasonal manner
unseasonally1941
1941 Massachusetts Rep. 310 132 The day..was unseasonally hot, the minimum temperature being forty-four degrees Fahrenheit in the shade, and the maximum eighty-four.
1958 Times 16 Oct. 6/3 Some migratory plovers and redshanks coming to winter in Britain were also changing their plumage unseasonally.
1980 Economist 30 Aug. 40/3 Mr Rocard is having to campaign unseasonally early just in case things go his way.
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