Felicitous vs Seasonable - What's the difference?
felicitous | seasonable | Related terms |
fitting; happening at the right time.
Working out well.
(linguistics, of a sentence or utterance) Semantically and pragmatically coherent, fitting in the context.
Opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.
Appropriate to the current season of the year.
*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).
Felicitous is a related term of seasonable.
As adjectives the difference between felicitous and seasonable
is that felicitous is fitting; happening at the right time while seasonable is opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.felicitous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous .
Synonyms
* (happening at the right time) appropriate, opportune, apt * (working out well) fortunate, opportuneAntonyms
* unfelicitous, grammatical/ungrammaticalDerived terms
* felicitously * felicitousness * unfelicitousseasonable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Thomas Salusbury (1662):' ''Nor is it '''seasonable to have to do with Hercules, whil'st he is enraged, and amongst the Furies.
- The temperature outside was quite seaonable , neither warmer nor colder than I had expected.