Word Meanings - TEMPESTIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers. Heywood. -- Tem*pes"tive*ly, adv.

TEMPESTIVE
Seasonable; timely; as, tempestive showers. Heywood. -- Tem*pes"tive*ly, adv.
TIMELY
1. Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable. "The timely dew of sleep." Milton. 2. Keeping time or measure. Spenser.
SEASONABLE
Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain. Mercy is seasonable in the time of affliction. Ecclus. xxxv. 20. -- Sea"son*a*ble*ness,
INTEMPESTIVELY
Unseasonably.
INTEMPESTIVE
Out of season; untimely. Burton. Intempestive bashfulness gets nothing. Hales.
UNTIMELY
Not timely; done or happening at an unnatural, unusual, or improper time; unseasonable; premature; inopportune; as, untimely frosts; untimely remarks; an untimely death.
UNSEASONABLE
Not seasonable; being, done, or occurring out of the proper season; ill-timed; untimely; too early or too late; as, he called at an unseasonable hour; unseasonable advice; unseasonable frosts; unseasonable food. -- Un*sea"son*a*ble*ness,