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Webster 1913 Edition
Seasonable
Sea′son-a-ble
,Adj.
Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely;
as, a
. seasonable
supply of rainMercy is
– seasonable
in the time of affliction. Ecclus. xxxv. 20.
Sea′son-a-ble-ness
, Noun.
Sea′son-a-bly
, adv.
Webster 1828 Edition
Seasonable
SE'ASONABLE
,Adj.
Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction. Ecclus.
Definition 2024
seasonable
seasonable
English
Adjective
seasonable (comparative more seasonable, superlative most seasonable)
- Opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.
- Thomas Salusbury (1662): Nor is it seasonable to have to do with Hercules, whil'st he is enraged, and amongst the Furies.
- Appropriate to the current season of the year.
- The temperature outside was quite seaonable, neither warmer nor colder than I had expected.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
- It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture.
- (obsolete) Ephemeral; lasting for just one season.
- (obsolete) In season (said of game when it is legal to be hunted and killed).
- (obsolete) Well-seasoned; matured (e.g. timber).
Antonyms
Derived terms
Translations
appropriate to current season
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References
- J[ohn] A. Simpson and E[dward] S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ISBN 978-0-19-861186-8.