unseasonable

adjective. not appropriate or suitable

Word Origin & History

mid-15c., "inopportune," from un- (1) "not" + seasonable. In reference to weather, "not appropriate to the time of year," it is recorded from 1510s.

These tears are unseasonable; things have not come to that yet.

But this was unseasonable, it ought to be fairly cool at the time of year.

It was an unseasonable tempest, scarcely to be looked for at that time of year.

There is a time for jesting, and a time when jokes are unseasonable.

Beware how you stir unattended, my dear Francisco, at unseasonable hours.

My intrusion is unseasonable, perhaps, but none the less unavoidable.

It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their name to eat an oyster.

And is this what you have interrupted me to say, at this unseasonable hour, Joel Pepper?

Indeed, they did not seem to be at all affected by this prolonged and unseasonable tempest.

As she said these unseasonable words her eyes had assumed a strange expression.