inopportune

Examples

• All

• She made her announcement at an inopportune moment during the meeting.

• I don't know why it assumed such importance at that inopportune moment, but it did.

  Fiction book (1998)

• Young lady, this is a most inopportune time.

  The Great Mouse Detective (1986)

• My dear lady, I do so hope this is not an inopportune time for our first practice.

  The Ladykillers (2004)

• In fact, I find myself thinking of you even at the most inopportune moments of the day.

  Crimson Peak (2015)

• Your arrival is most inopportune.

  Fiction book (1998)

• This couldn't have happened at a more inopportune time!

  A Bug's Life (1998)

• And then he turned up here totally unannounced at a most inopportune moment.

  Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)

• I left my firm, by coincidence, at a relatively inopportune time, which didn't help.

  Blog text (12)

• But with the threat from North Korea unabated and perhaps even heightened recently, now would be an especially inopportune moment.

  Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

U

untimely

vsinopportune

34 5.3

Happening at a bad time, often earlier than expected

means inconvenient timing generally rather than necessarily being early

I

ill-timed

vsinopportune

3 5.5

Happening at a bad time that causes problems

has the same meaning here, expressing bad timing rather than other differences

I

inapposite

vsinopportune

1 9.9

Not suitable for a situation and therefore not important to the topic

focuses on poor timing specifically rather than general irrelevance

I

inexpedient

vsinopportune

• Formal

1 9.1

Not a good idea when it is risky or will not work

highlights inconvenient or unsuitable timing rather than impracticality or unwisdom

Antonyms

O

opportune

13 6.8

Happening at a good time to be useful

How Timely

opportune

13 6.8

timely

111 3.0

inopportune

8 7.3

untimely

34 5.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology