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unseasonable /ʌnˈsiːz(ə)nəb(ə)l /adjective1(Of weather) unusual for the time of year: an unseasonable warm spell...- There was a wonderful job done on the course and the greens were so slick despite the rain and unseasonable weather.
- Although the so-called ‘near drought’ has prompted consternation among gardeners, many of whom are fretting about the health of their plants, the unseasonable weather is proving an unexpected boon for some retailers.
- Others suggest a less sinister theory, arguing that the continent's torrential summer season is down to a completely natural and not entirely unexpected event: freakishly unseasonable weather.
2Untimely; inopportune: we visited the place at an unseasonable time...- How is it that you come here with clothes and hair still wet at an unseasonable hour?
- But we visited the place at an unseasonable time, and found it divested of its dignity and terror.
- "This is somewhat unseasonable," said the Governor, looking at his watch; "it is now almost nine."
Derivativesunseasonableness /ʌnˈsiːz(ə)nəb(ə)lnəs/ noun ...- The sleepy porter admitted Cleanor without asking a question, though not without a grumble at the unseasonableness of so early a visit.
- Such ill - timed exercise was of a piece with the strange unseasonableness of his morning walks, and boded nothing good.
- New Jersey, while it did not disapprove of some of the changes, yet had ‘to recognize the unseasonableness and irregularity of them.’
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