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/sˈiːzənəbəl/
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[ US /ˈsizənəbəɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈsizənəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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in keeping with the season
seasonable clothes
a hard but seasonable frost -
done or happening at the appropriate or proper time
a seasonable time for discussion
the book's publication was well timed
a timely warning
with timely treatment the patient has a good chance of recovery
How To Use seasonable In A Sentence
- This seasonable supply enabled our hero to stand trial with his adversary, who was nonsuited, and also to mend his external appearance, which of late had not been extremely magnificent. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
- It was in the upper fifties or lower sixties tonight, and I'd say it was unseasonable but it was just as warm last year.
- Heavy rain also fell in northeastern Victoria, and cold air accompanying the storm resulted in heavy - and quite unseasonable - snowfalls on the higher mountains.
- But we visited the place at an unseasonable time, and found it divested of its dignity and terror.
- These two great advantages may be made by those who frequently study poets; — the learning moderation, to keep them from unseasonable and foolish reproaching others with their misfortunes, when they themselves enjoy a constant current of prosperity; and magnanimity, that under variety of accidents they be not dejected nor disturbed, but meekly bear the being scoffed at, reproached, and drolled upon. Essays and Miscellanies
- He [1] was indeede a man of extraordinary parts, a pleasant witt, a greate understandinge, which pierced into and decerned the purposes of other men with wounderfull sagacity, whilst he had himselfe vultum clausum, that no man could make a guesse of what he intended; he was of a temper not to be mooved, and of rare dissimulation, and could comply when it was not seasonable to contradicte without loosinge grounde by the condescention, and if he were not superiour to M'r Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles
- The seasonable nature of the trade led to the production of much more ambitious pieces of furniture such as tables, cabinets, bureaux and chiffoniers.
- Dean McCarron, principal of Mercury Research, is anticipating an "unseasonable" PC growth from 0 to 5 percent for Q4. EE Times-Asia
- Rene Heroux, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, called the unseasonable weather a heat wave. Canada.com Top Stories
- The sleepy porter admitted Cleanor without asking a question, though not without a grumble at the unseasonableness of so early a visit.