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
Equally as bracing was this ominously unseasonable warmth.
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Lynn Steger Strong, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
But, until Sosa’s swing, a packed house didn’t have much to celebrate other than the unseasonable warmth in South Philly.
—Matt Gelb, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Lynn Steger Strong, Harpers Magazine, 28 Mar. 2025
But, until Sosa’s swing, a packed house didn’t have much to celebrate other than the unseasonable warmth in South Philly.
—Matt Gelb, New York Times, 1 Apr. 2025
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.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unseasonable
Adjective
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City Comptroller Brad Lander was in third place in the early returns, pulling about 12% in the unofficial results, tallies showed.—
Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
25 June 2025
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The New York City Board of Elections reported that its unofficial count of early votes in 2025 is 384,338, while AMNY reported that the board said 191,197 people voted early in 2021.—
James Powel,
USA Today,
24 June 2025
Adjective
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Aquarius: Eclectic nostalgia Original and unexpected, Aquarius mixes cutting-edge trends with their own unique flair.—
Meghan Rose,
Glamour,
1 July 2025
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Playing his career for the Nashville Predators, Tampa Bay Lightning and Los Angeles Kings show a perfect example of an unexpected pay cut for a player.—
Tyler Small,
Forbes.com,
1 July 2025
Adjective
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Her particular specialism is making sudden bursts towards the near post, staying in the defender’s blind spot before suddenly jumping ahead of her marker to turn home a simple chance, often laid on a plate at club level by Caroline Graham Hansen, with whom Pajor also worked well at Wolfsburg.—
Michael Cox,
New York Times,
30 June 2025
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Given the sudden burst of interest, agentic AI risks becoming something that’s all too common in business: a topic that everyone is talking about, but that few people actually understand.—
Tomas Gorny,
Forbes.com,
30 June 2025
Adjective
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The films also plumbs the untimely death of its director Kamal Selim at the age of just 34, one of Egypt’s greatest directors.—
John Hopewell,
Variety,
30 June 2025
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The autopsies later proved, though, that a head injury did not play a factor in Mays’ untimely death.—
Lynsey Eidell,
People.com,
28 June 2025
Adjective
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Each person was encouraged to write down and bring their ideas into the meeting, ensuring a diverse set of thoughts and avoiding premature consensus.—
Derek Richardson,
Forbes.com,
27 June 2025
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For example, premature, avoidable deaths varied widely across states—in West Virginia, the rate was more than twice as high as the rate in Massachusetts.—
Jasmine Laws,
MSNBC Newsweek,
26 June 2025
Adjective
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Early pieces by now established California artists and contemporary collaborations between artists and their children are featured along with work by teens past and present who continue reshaping culture from their precocious perspectives.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
24 June 2025
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For 46 years it’s been a wonderful ride, the sweetest of sagas, the Buss family treating the Lakers like their precocious child, nurturing, embracing, empowering, transforming them into arguably this country’s most celebrated sports franchise.—
Bill Plaschke,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 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 8 Jul. 2025.
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