Inopportunity

Inopportunity
Inopportunity In*op`por*tu"ni*ty, n. Lack of opportunity; unseasonableness; inconvenience. [R.] [1913 Webster]

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  • inopportunity — n. inappropriateness, state of being untimely, inconvenience …   English contemporary dictionary

  • inopportunity — inoppˈortuneness (or / tūnˈ/) or inopportunˈity noun • • • Main Entry: ↑inopportune …   Useful english dictionary

  • inopportune — inopportunely, adv. inopportuneness, inopportunity, n. /in op euhr toohn , tyoohn /, adj. not opportune; inappropriate; inconvenient; untimely or unseasonable: an inopportune visit. [1525 35; < LL inopportunus. See IN 3, OPPORTUNE] * * * …   Universalium

  • anumāna — ▪ Hinduism       (Sanskrit: “measuring along some other thing,” or “inference”), in Indian philosophy, the second of the five means of knowledge ( pramāṇa) that enable man to have accurate cognitions. inference occupies a central place in the… …   Universalium

  • impropriety — Synonyms and related words: Babbittry, Gothicism, aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, anomaly, atrocity, bad taste, badness, barbarism, barbarousness, blunder, bombasticness, bourgeois taste, breach, cacology, cacophony, camp, campiness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • inappropriateness — Synonyms and related words: Babbittry, aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, anomaly, bad taste, bourgeois taste, camp, campiness, criminality, delinquency, deviance, deviancy, disentitlement, empty claim, empty title, excess, false claim, futility …   Moby Thesaurus

  • inconvenience — Synonyms and related words: abuse a privilege, ado, aggravate, aggravation, ail, annoy, annoyance, anxiety, awkwardness, be the matter, beset, besetment, bother, bothersomeness, bulkiness, burden, burdening, burdensomeness, burthen, can of worms …   Moby Thesaurus

  • inexpedience — Synonyms and related words: bad policy, badness, callowness, childishness, damnability, evilness, immaturity, impolicy, improperness, impropriety, imprudence, inaccuracy, inadvisability, inappropriateness, inattention, inauspiciousness,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • infelicity — Synonyms and related words: Gothicism, abnormality, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, anomaly, antiphrasis, bad taste, bale, barbarism, barbarousness, bitterness, bleeding heart, bombasticness, broken heart, cacology, cacophony,… …   Moby Thesaurus

  • interruption — Synonyms and related words: abeyance, arrest, arrestation, arrestment, blockage, blocking, breach, break, caesura, cease, cease fire, ceasing, cessation, check, clearance, clogging, closing up, closure, coffee break, cold storage, constriction,… …   Moby Thesaurus

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