Crossword clues for unseasonable
unseasonable
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Unseasonable \Un*sea"son*a*ble\, a. Not seasonable; being, done, or occurring out of the proper season; ill-timed; untimely; too early or too late; as, he called at an unseasonable hour; unseasonable advice; unseasonable frosts; unseasonable food. -- Un*sea"son*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*sea"son*a*bly, adv.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "inopportune," from un- (1) "not" + seasonable (adj.). In reference to weather, "not appropriate to the time of year," it is recorded from 1510s. Related: Unseasonably.
Wiktionary
a. Not in accordance with the season.
WordNet
adj. not in keeping with (and usually undesirable for) the season; "a sudden unseasonable blizzard"; "unseasonable bright blue weather in November" [ant: seasonable]
badly timed; "an ill-timed intervention"; "you think my intrusion unseasonable"; "an untimely remark"; "it was the wrong moment for a joke" [syn: ill-timed(a), ill timed(p), untimely, wrong]
Usage examples of "unseasonable".
As I was obliged to bend low to come out of my hole, my bow was ready made, and drawing myself up, I looked at him calmly without affecting any unseasonable hardihood, and waited for him to speak.
But while the captain was one day busied in deep contemplations of this kind, one of the most unlucky as well as unseasonable accidents happened to him.
Outside, the unseasonable spring heat made the Michigan campus a muggy sock of a night.
Tomas was eager to go north, as were many others, but they were all taking this unseasonable weather too much to heart.
The effect of this discourse--a very unseasonable one, under the circumstances--was to make my blood boil, but I listened with a patience wholly foreign to my nature.
The odd appearance of the monk, without a hat and with a fine cloak on his shoulders, with my unseasonable attire, was enough to make people take us for an astrologer and his man.
By good fortune the next day was one of those fine unseasonable March days especially made for the loosening of the bands of ice that bind our Maine fields and streams.
The lands are flooded by the unseasonable rains and by the Dark, who have broken the levees on the rivers.
She studied the unseasonable storms, the earthquakes and landslides, the belching volcanoes, the agitated behavior of the wild animals, and knew that they were not merely side effects of the magical tempest engendered by Portolanus to aid his escape from Zinora.
The ornamental trees and shrubs of the squares and boulevards were pathetic things in the unseasonable weather, with leaves and flowers blasted and branches bending sadly beneath their sparkling new covering.
Then they fell to the wet ground, winking like little eyes in the unseasonable sunlight.
Some of them might have weathered a Ghost Wind, an unseasonable release of kireseth pollen.
Returning from one of these unseasonable rambles, I chanced to meet you.
Yet why should I disturb them by inquiries so impertinent at this unseasonable hour?
I saw the necessity of putting an end to her suspense, and of preventing the news from reaching her with fallacious aggravations or at an unseasonable time.