Seemly vs Seasonable - What's the difference?
seemly | seasonable | Related terms |
(of behavior) Appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming.
* Shakespeare
* Hooker
Appropriately, fittingly.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
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).
Seemly is a related term of seasonable.
As adjectives the difference between seemly and seasonable
is that seemly is (of behavior) appropriate; suited to the occasion or purpose; becoming while seasonable is opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.As an adverb seemly
is appropriately, fittingly.seemly
English
Adjective
(er)- His behavior was seemly , as befits a gentleman.
- I am a woman, lacking wit / To make a seemly answer to such persons.
- Suspense of judgment and exercise of charity were safer and seemlier for Christian men than the hot pursuit of these controversies.
Synonyms
* appositeAntonyms
* unseemlyDerived terms
* * * seemlinessAdverb
(en adverb)- The great earthes wombe they open to the sky, / And with sad Cypresse seemely it embraue [...].
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.
