Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Typical of or suitable for the season or the time of year.
  • adjective Archaic Occurring or performed at a suitable or proper time; opportune.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Suitable as to time or season; opportune; occurring, happening, or done in due season or proper time for the purpose; in keeping with the season or with the circumstances: as, a seasonable supply of rain.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.
  • adjective Appropriate to the current season of the year.
  • adjective obsolete Ephemeral; lasting for just one season.
  • adjective obsolete In season (said of game when it is legal to be hunted and killed).
  • adjective obsolete Well-seasoned; matured (e.g. timber).

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective done or happening at the appropriate or proper time
  • adjective in keeping with the season

Etymologies

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season +‎ -able

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Examples

  • The Memphis Christian Advocate speaks of this work as "seasonable" -- in view of the revival of infidelity of the Thomas Paine type -- and says,

    Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery, as Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: with the Duties of Masters to Slaves. William Andrew 1856

  • He generally had on a well worn greyish overcoat, the side pockets of which gaped somewhat with constant usage for into them he would cram a large number of tracts and sally forth in company with me or another of the missionaries, or as sometimes happened he went alone, drop a tract here or there and speak a seasonable word.

    General Gordon Saint and Soldier J. Wardle

  • Now that is ever best and most seasonable, which is for the good of the whole.

    Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

  • We are supposed to clear off later, with wind and "seasonable" temperatures, which means highs in the 40s F.

    More gray jhetley 2007

  • Longer-term forecast says showers off and on until Wednesday, at which point we return to "seasonable" temperatures.

    Clouding up jhetley 2006

  • The Triestines think us as mad as hatters to come up here, on account of the weather, which is 'seasonable' – bora, snow, and frozen fingers.

    The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897

  • -- But even to him who possesses the knowledge of Brahman, the fruits of good deeds -- such as seasonable rain, good crops, &c. -- are desirable because they enable him to perform his meditations in due form; how then can it be said that knowledge is antagonistic to them and destroys them?

    The Vedanta-Sutras with the Commentary by Ramanuja — Sacred Books of the East, Volume 48 George Thibaut 1881

  • People to whom cold means misery, who hate to be braced, and shudder at the word "seasonable," can have little difficulty in accounting for the origin of the sports of winter.

    Lost Leaders Andrew Lang 1878

  • Here in Paris, the numbed soldiers out in the open fields, and the women and children, who have no fires and hardly any food, bitterly complain of the "seasonable" weather.

    Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Henry Labouchere 1871

  • Yet it was only high noon, of a "seasonable" winter's day, by the face of the clock that hung like a pallid moon on the murky wall opposite to him.

    A Protegee of Jack Hamlin's and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869

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