Opportune vs Seasonable - What's the difference?
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Suitable for some particular purpose.
At a convenient or advantageous time.
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).
Seasonable is a synonym of opportune.
As adjectives the difference between opportune and seasonable
is that opportune is suitable for some particular purpose while seasonable is opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.opportune
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- This would be an opportune spot for a picnic
- The opportune arrival of the bus cut short the boring conversation
Antonyms
* inopportuneseasonable
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.
