seasonable

seasonable, timely, well-timed, opportune, pat can mean occurring or coming with peculiar appropriateness as to moment or present situation.

What is seasonable is perfectly suited to the season or time of year

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seasonable menus for hot August days

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seasonable weather

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or, by extension, fits in perfectly with the needs of the moment or the character of the occasion

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his caution was . . . seasonable, and his advice . . . good— Defoe

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weaves a seasonable garland of legend and fact from the flora of Christmas—London Calling

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What is timely is not only seasonable but comes or occurs at such a moment as to be of genuine value or service

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a timely book

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to me alone there came a thought of grief: a timely utterançe gave that thought relief— Wordsworth

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valuable objects may be saved from the flames by timely aid— Dickens

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What is well-timed is so timely as to suggest the appearance or the actual exercise of care, forethought, or design

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their well-timed and rapid charge decided the conflict— Gibbon

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the instruments needed to make their movements precise and well-timed were necessarily reduced to uniformity too— Mumford

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What is opportune fits directly into a given concurrence of circumstances or comes as if by accident in the nick of time and works to the advantage of those concerned

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the moment was not opportune for an uprising

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as if this was an encounter which was something more than convenient, something really opportune— West

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the literary scene was too full of chaotic and short-lived movements to make the launching of a large work opportune— Barzun

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What is pat is perfectly adapted to the situation or-the moment

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a pat quotation

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or comes or occurs at the very moment it is needed

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a story so pat, you may think it is coined— Cowper

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had assuredly the air of a miracle, of something dreamed in a dream, of something pathetically and impossibly appropriate— pat, as they say— Bennett

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Analogous words: apropos, apposite, pertinent, *relevant: appropriate, happy, felicitous, apt (see FIT): welcome, grateful, gratifying (see PLEASANT)

Antonyms: unseasonable