ˌən-ˈsēz-nə-bəl
as in early
occurring before the usual or expected time
an unseasonable snowstorm in early November
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Recent Examples of unseasonable
An unseasonable warm spell this week will let people shed their winter layers – but don’t put those big coats away just yet, the summer-like weather is expected to be gone by the weekend.
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Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2025
This was an unseasonable claim; Putin was then being hailed as an optimist, an internationalist, and a reformer.
—James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
The unseasonable temperatures have various impacts, including the risk of river flooding as ice melts.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
An unseasonable shift in weather is bringing the chance of showers and thunderstorms across Southern California, prompting some concerns about flooding as temperatures also drop well below average for mid-September.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
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Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 25 Feb. 2025
This was an unseasonable claim; Putin was then being hailed as an optimist, an internationalist, and a reformer.
—James Verini, The New Yorker, 1 Mar. 2025
The unseasonable temperatures have various impacts, including the risk of river flooding as ice melts.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2024
An unseasonable shift in weather is bringing the chance of showers and thunderstorms across Southern California, prompting some concerns about flooding as temperatures also drop well below average for mid-September.
—Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unseasonable
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Not bad for a town that emerged originally as the terminus of industrial traffic along the Erie Canal in the early 1800s.—
David Allan,
CNN Money,
31 May 2025
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According to data from the C.D.C., infants under six months of age with COVID have been hospitalized at comparable rates to people in their late sixties and early seventies.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
31 May 2025
Adjective
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The community has grown up, but growth brought unexpected burdens.—
Boaz Sobrado,
Forbes.com,
27 May 2025
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There are unexpected movements, too, plus frantic activity between the more than 20 frames that surround the stage.—
Dewayne Bevil,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 May 2025
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As guests hurried into the building to escape the sudden downpour — with a few leaving early, uncertain about how the rest of the day would unfold — Ashley had to think on her feet.—
Tereza Shkurtaj,
People.com,
25 May 2025
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The 2014 retirement of Malcolm (who died in 2017) and sudden spring 2016 departure of Johnson due to the risk of complete hearing loss threw shade on the future.—
Bob Gendron,
Chicago Tribune,
25 May 2025
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Purdy, known to her family as Bez Purdy, was loved by the Broomfield community and had been a church warden for 20 years before her untimely death, per the statement.—
Lesley Cosme Torres,
People.com,
27 May 2025
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Random House, July 8 Image These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean Alice Storm returns, reluctantly, to her estranged family’s Rhode Island estate after the untimely death of her billionaire father, Franklin.—
Laura Thompson,
New York Times,
22 May 2025
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The zero-emission requirements were expected to eliminate nearly 70,000 tons of smog-forming emissions and 4,500 tons of soot statewide by 2040, preventing more than 1,200 premature deaths and providing $13 billion in public health benefits, according to the California Air Resources Board.—
Tony Briscoe,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2025
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The Commonwealth Fund’s 2023 Scorecard on State Health System Performance ranked states based on several factors including premature death rates and healthcare access and affordability.—
Madeline Mitchell,
USA Today,
22 May 2025
Adjective
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Hepburn’s thorny performance veers away from her typical sparkling ingenue presence toward something more brittle (watching Holly Golightly restrain herself from cursing out a precocious, irritating child delights).—
Gráinne O'Hara Belluomo,
Footwear News,
26 May 2025
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But the creature is quickly adopted by Lilo (Maia Kealoha), a precocious child with a special love for animals, at a kennel where he has been mistaken for an ugly dog.—
Gregory Nussen,
Deadline,
20 May 2025
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The theft seems easy to James, and exciting — Reichardt layers a jazzy score underneath the action that shows up under fitting, then increasingly inopportune moments.—
Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
23 May 2025
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Putting pressure on the opponent This roster appears to be well-built for low-scoring games in April, which can swing on an inopportune error or a heads-up base-running decision.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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“Unseasonable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unseasonable. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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