Seasonable vs Apropos - What's the difference?
seasonable | apropos | Related terms |
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).
Of an appropriate or pertinent nature.
* 1877 , ,
by the way, incidental.
* 1877 ,
Regarding or concerning.
* 2011 , Jeremy Harding, "Diary", London Review of Books , 33.VII:
By the way.
Timely; at a good time.
As adjectives the difference between seasonable and apropos
is that seasonable is opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time while apropos is of an appropriate or pertinent nature.As a preposition apropos is
regarding or concerning.As an adverb apropos is
by the way.seasonable
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.
Antonyms
* unseasonableDerived terms
* seasonablenessReferences
*apropos
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Alternative forms
* *Adjective
(en adjective)- Nothing easier. I received not long ago a map from my friend, Augustus Petermann, at Leipzig. Nothing could be more apropos .
- Sherlock Holmes rose and lit his pipe. "No doubt you think that you are complimenting me in comparing me to Dupin," he observed. "Now, in my opinion, Dupin was a very inferior fellow. That trick of his of breaking in on his friends' thoughts with an apropos remark after a quarter of an hour's silence is really very showy and superficial. He had some analytical genius, no doubt; but he was by no means such a phenomenon as Poe appeared to imagine."
Synonyms
* (by the way) by the way, incidentally, incidentalPreposition
(English prepositions)- Few have the same root and branch obsession with the recent past or the avenger’s recall (‘the necessity for long memory and sarcasm in argument’, as he wrote apropos the old left intelligentsia in New York).
