opportuneless

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English

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Etymology

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From opportune +‎ -less.

Adjective

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opportuneless (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Devoid of opportunity.
    • 1938, The Gamma Alpha Record, page 90:
      Alternately the world seems bright and opportuneless.
    • 2008, Leonard Mann, Flesh in Armour, page 47:
      After long thwarted brooding over it in the opportuneless times of peace the War had given him his chance.