Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Not suitable to or appropriate for the season.
- adjective Not characteristic of the time of year.
- adjective Poorly timed; inopportune.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not seasonable: as, an unseasonable hour. Not suited to the time or occasion; acting at an unsuitable time; unfit; untimely; ill-timed: as, unseasonable advisers or advice.
- Not agreeable to the time of the year; out of season: as, an unseasonable frost. Not in season; taken, caught, or killed out of season, and therefore unfit for food: as, unseasonable salmon.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Not seasonable; being, done, or occurring out of the proper season; ill-timed; untimely; too early or too late
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not in accordance with the season.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective not in keeping with (and usually undesirable for) the season
- adjective badly timed
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Examples
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It was one of those days in June, in which our summer-hopes take umbrage at what we call unseasonable weather, though no season was ever known to pass without them.
The Ladies' Vase Polite Manual for Young Ladies An American Lady
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This hour seemed to him and to Mrs. Peterkin unseasonable, at a time of year when the sun was not up, and he would have been obliged to go to the expense of candles.
The Peterkin Papers Lucretia Peabody 1886
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Rene Heroux, a meteorologist with Environment Canada, called the unseasonable weather a heat wave.
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Eagle-cam shows a chick in that downeast nest -- the wildlife biologists had thought the eggs had died due to our "unseasonable" weather. briloon.org.
The fun never stops jhetley 2007
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Moreover, no person is "to drink or tipple at unseasonable times in houses of entertainment," -- the "unseasonable" time being declared to be after nine in the evening.
Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 4, June 1906 Monthly Magazine Devoted to Social Science and Literature Various 1904
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Dean McCarron, principal of Mercury Research, is anticipating an "unseasonable" PC growth from 0 to 5 percent for Q4.
EE Times-Asia 2008
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Dean McCarron, principal of Mercury Research, is anticipating an "unseasonable" PC growth from 0 to 5 percent for Q4.
EE Times-Asia 2008
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Dean McCarron, principal of Mercury Research, is anticipating an "unseasonable" PC growth from 0 to 5 percent for Q4.
EE Times-Asia 2008
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After two weeks of unseasonable cool weather, forecasters predict a 104-degree scorcher Sunday.
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The world is a big place, so despite unseasonable blizzards in the media/political center of the US Northeast on average the planet is still getting warmer:
Matthew Yglesias » January Was the Warmest Temperature in World History 2010
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