Lucky vs Seasonable - What's the difference?
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Favoured by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune. Said of persons.
Producing, or resulting in, good chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate.
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).
Lucky is a related term of seasonable.
As adjectives the difference between lucky and seasonable
is that lucky is favoured by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune said of persons while seasonable is opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.lucky
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Adjective
(er)- a lucky adventurer
- The downed pilot is very lucky to be alive.
- a lucky mistake
- a lucky cast
- a lucky hour
Quotations
* 1989 , Howard Ashman, “Under the Sea”, The Little Mermaid , Walt Disney Feature Animation *: They sad ’cause they in their bowl / But fish in the bowl is lucky / They in for a worser fateSynonyms
* (favored by luck ): fortunate, successful * (producing or resulting in good chance ): auspicious, favorable/favourable, fortunate, fortuitousDerived terms
* get lucky * lucky dip * lucky you * should be so luckyseasonable
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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.