seasonable
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seasonable (comparative more seasonable, superlative most seasonable)
- Opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.
- Thomas Salusbury (1662): Nor is it seasonable to have to do with Hercules, whil'st he is enraged, and amongst the Furies.
- Appropriate to the current season of the year.
- The temperature outside was quite seaonable, neither warmer nor colder than I had expected.
- 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).
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appropriate to current season
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[edit] References
- Oxford English Dictionary, Second Edition, 1989