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inopportune
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inopportune \In*op`por*tune"\, a. [L. inopportunus: cf. F. inopportun. See In- not, and Opportune.] Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable; as, an inopportune occurrence, remark, etc.
No visit could have been more inopportune.
--T. Hook.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s, from Late Latin inopportunus "unfitting," from in- "not" + opportunus (see opportune). A rare word before 19c. Related: Inopportunely.
Wiktionary
a. 1 unsuitable for some particular purpose 2 at an inconvenient or inappropriate time
WordNet
adj. not opportune; "arrived at a most inopportune hour"; "an inopportune visit" [ant: opportune]
Usage examples of "inopportune".
Master Jacob Bar Harsha and the commission felt it a most inopportune time to approach the Baptist with their inquisition.
There is a case mentioned in which an accident and an inopportune dose of ergot at the fifth month of pregnancy were followed by rupture of the amniotic sac, and subsequently a constant flow of watery fluid continued for the remaining three months of pregnancy.
A work written with temper, without passion or sectional prejudice, in a philosophical spirit, explaining to the American people their own national constitution, and the mutual relations of the General government and the State governments, cannot, at this important crisis in our affairs, be inopportune, and, if properly executed, can hardly fail to be of real service.
No last-moment oxcarts barred their way out this morning, no inopportune gaggle of geese or other flapping fowl met them in the gate.
Today Haroun, the much-detested Caliph Will find his Caliphate inopportune.
Today Haroun, the much-detested Caliph, Will find Caliphate inopportune!
More than one man were at one with Lord Rivers and Chancer in feeling the advent of Trevalyon to be extremely inopportune, when at the closing words he drew nearer, and Vaura, with her own bewildering smile, allowed him to carry her off.
The worst of the bigots on both sides had been retired or shifted into less sensitive positions, although a significant but thankfully small number of them continued to crop up—always at extremely inopportune moments, of course.
It was the dentures he could not abide -- the false fangs that always slipped out at the most inopportune moments or worse, got stuck in the neck of some pitiful couch potato too flabby and lungless to outrun a sexacentenarian.
Unfortunately, old Doc Hodges has a particular knack for showing up at the most inopportune times.
Philip began hostilities at an inopportune moment for Rome, but in the new alliance with the Aetolians and Attalus, king of Pergamum, it seemed as though Fortune were giving a pledge of Rome's dominion in the East.
But he felt an equivalent resignation, a sadness at the bad luck that had brought him into contact with such a large group of V's at so inopportune a time.