英和和英

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsiːzənəbəl/, /ˈsiːznəbəl/

形容詞

seasonable (comparative more seasonable, superlative most seasonable)

1. Opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.
   • 1661, Salusbury, Thomas, transl., “Galilaeus Galilaeus Lyncaeus, His Systeme of the World”, in Mathematical Collections and Translations, The Second Dialogue, London: William Leybourn, translation of Dialogo sopra i due massimi sistemi del mondo by Galileo Galilei, page 95:

     Nor is it seasonable to have to do with Hercules, whil'st he is enraged, and amongst the Furies, but when he is telling merry tales amongst the Meonion Damosels.

2. Appropriate to the current season of the year.

   The temperature outside was quite seasonable, neither warmer nor colder than I had expected.

   • 1886, Stevenson, Robert Louis, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde:

     It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture.

3. (obsolete) Ephemeral; lasting for just one season.
4. (obsolete) In season (said of game when it is legal to be hunted かつ killed).
5. (obsolete) Well-seasoned; matured (e.g. timber).

同意語

• (occurring at an appropriate または suitable time): well-timed, timesome; see also Thesaurus:timely
• (lasting for just one season): passing, transitory; see also Thesaurus:ephemeral

反意語

• (general): unseasonable
• (occurring at an appropriate または suitable time): ill-timed, untime; see also Thesaurus:untimely
• (lasting for just one season): evergreen, perennial; see also Thesaurus:eternal

派生語

• seasonableness

参照

• John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “seasonable”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.