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Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently.

Want of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience. [R.]

Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.

To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.

To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of. Locke.

To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A failure of exportation; a not exporting of commodities.

Want or failure of importation; a not importing of commodities.

Not importing; not bringing from foreign countries.

Convenient; ready; hence, seasonable; timely. Milton. This is most opportune to our need. Shak. -- Op`por*tune"ly, adv. -- Op`por*tune"ness, n.

The art or practice of taking advantage of opportunities or circumstances, or of seeking immediate advantage with little regard for ultimate consequences. [Recent]

One who advocates or practices opportunism. [Recent]

uitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Bacon.

A harbor or port at some distance from the chief town or seat of trade. Macaulay.

To exceed in sporting. [R.] "Not to outsport discretion." Shak.

To make of too great proportion.

el from place to place, without molestation, by land or by water. Caution in granting passports to Ireland. Clarendon.

The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his own proportion. Ridley. Formed in the best proportions of her sex. Sir W. Scot…

Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke. Proportionable, which is no longer much favored, was of our [i. e., English writers'] own coining. Fitzed. Hall.…

Proportionally. Locke.