Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for UN-SEA'SON-A-BLE
UN-SEAR'EDUN-SEA'SON-A-BLE-NESS
UN-SEA'SON-A-BLE, a. [unsee'znable.]
- Not seasonable; not being in the proper season or time. He called at an unseasonable hour.
- Not suited to the time or occasion; unfit; untimely; ill timed; as, unseasonable advice; an unseasonable digression.
- Late; being beyond the usual time. He came home at an unseasonable time of night.
- Not agreeable to the time of the year; as, an unseasonable frost. The frosts of 1816, in June, July and August in New England, were considered unseasonable, as they were unusual.
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