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单词 unseasonable
释义 un·seasonable
\“+\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English unsesounable, from un- (I) + sesounable seasonable
1. : not seasonable : being, done, or occurring out of the proper season : untimely, inappropriate
 < you think my intrusion unseasonable — T.L.Peacock >
 < their aim … to guard the free income of the lesser vested interests against the unseasonable rapacity of the greater ones — Thorstein Veblen >
 < lovers will drop in at most unseasonable hours — Anthony Trollope >
2. : not being in season
 < after spawning when the fish … are thin, weak, and unseasonable — C.R.A.Martin >
 < this partridge was evidently a diseased bird, and the unseasonable egg was probably due to some abnormal condition — Country Life >
3.
 a. : not usual or normal and usually undesirable for the season of the year
  < to forestall losses from sudden unseasonable northers — American Guide Series: Texas >
  < an unseasonable April blizzard >
 b. : characterized by unseasonable weather
  < boarding houses … had suffered from the unseasonable summer — Mollie Panter-Downes >
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