Word Meanings - SEASONABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: 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, n. -- Sea"son*a*bly, adv.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SEASONABLE)

• Acceptable
• Grateful
• pleasant
• welcome
• agreeable
• pleasure
• seasonable
• gratifying
• Apposite
• Suitable
• appropriate
• befitting
• fitting
• timely
• congruous
• consistent
• pertinent
• relevant
• fit
• meet
• adapted
• apropos
• Convenient
• Handy
• apt
• fitted
• suitable
• helpful
• commodious
• useful
• opportune
• Opportune
• Timely
• felicitous
• auspicious
• Early
• prompt
• judicious

Related words: (words related to SEASONABLE)

• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• PROMPT-BOOK
  The book used by a prompter of a theater.
• AUSPICIOUS
  1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• COMMODIOUSLY
  In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton.
• ADAPTABLE
  Capable of being adapted.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• RELEVANTLY
  In a relevant manner.
• EARLY
  Soon; in good season; seasonably; betimes; as, come early. Those that me early shall find me. Prov. viii. 17. You must wake and call me early. Tennyson.
• PERTINENT
  1. Belonging or related to the subject or matter in hand; fit or appropriate in any way; adapted to the end proposed; apposite; material; relevant; as, pertinent illustrations or arguments; pertinent evidence. 2. Regarding; concerning; belonging;
• PROMPTLY
  In a prompt manner.
• CONVENIENTLY
  In a convenient manner, form, or situation; without difficulty.
• COMMODIOUS
  Adapted to its use or purpose, or to wants and necessities; serviceable; spacious and convenient; roomy and comfortable; as, a commodious house. "A commodious drab." Shak. "Commodious gold." Pope. The haven was not commodious to winter in. Acts.
• APPROPRIATE
  Set apart for a particular use or person. Hence: Belonging peculiarly; peculiar; suitable; fit; proper. In its strict and appropriate meaning. Porteus. Appropriate acts of divine worship. Stillingfleet. It is not at all times easy to find words
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• HANDY-DANDY
  A child's play, one child guessing in which closed hand the other holds some small object, winning the object if right and forfeiting an equivalent if wrong; hence, forfeit. Piers Plowman.
• COMMODIOUSNESS
  State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convience; roominess. Of cities, the greatness and riches increase according to the commodiousness of their situation. Sir W. Temple. The commodiousness of the harbor. Johnson.
• PLEASANTNESS
  The state or quality of being pleasant.
• JUDICIOUS
  Of or relating to a court; judicial. His last offenses to us Shall have judicious hearing. Shak. 2. Directed or governed by sound judgment; having sound judgment; wise; prudent; sagacious; discreet. He is noble, wise, judicious, and best knows The
• HANDY
  Easily managed; obedient to the helm; -- said of a vessel. (more info) hendig , fr. hand hand; akin to D. handig, Goth. handugs 1. Performed by the hand. To draw up and come to handy strokes. Milton. 2. Skillful in using the hand; dexterous;
• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• DISAGREEABLENESS
  The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• INGRATEFUL
  1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,
• APPERTINENT
  Belonging; appertaining. Coleridge.
• INOPPORTUNELY
  Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently.
• HALF-YEARLY
  Two in a year; semiannual. -- adv. Twice in a year; semiannually.
• DISCOMMODIOUS
  Inconvenient; troublesome; incommodious. Spenser. -- Dis`com*mo"di*ous*ly, adv. -- Dis`com*mo"di*ous*ness, n.