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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, n. -- Un*sea"son*a*bly, adv.

To proceed; to issue; to spring. Whence haply mention may arise Of something not unseasonable to ask. Milton.

ion in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought. This seems an unseasonable foresight. Milton. A random expense, without plan or foresight. Burke.

Inopportune; unseasonable. [Obs.]

Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable; as, an inopportune occurrence, remark, etc. No visit could have been more inopportune. T. Hook.

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

Severity of weather; inclemency. Boyle. By unseasonable weather, by intemperateness of the air or meteors. Sir M. Hale.

Unseasonableness; untimeliness. [Obs.] Hales.

vitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass; as, to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another. Thy wit wants edge And manners, to intrude where I am graced. Shak. Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them. I…

Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.

Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely. [R.] Nor fits it to prolong the heavenly feast Timeless, indecent. Pope.

Happening at a bad time; unseasonable; inconvenient. A. Trollope.

Unseasonable; untimely. [Obs.] "Untidy tales." Piers Plowman.

An unseasonable time. [Obs.] A man shall not eat in untime. Chaucer.

Unseasonableness.

Not timely; done or happening at an unnatural, unusual, or improper time; unseasonable; premature; inopportune; as, untimely frosts; untimely remarks; an untimely death.