Sample Sentences for
opportune
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    But in an instant, the Count could see that for Nina his sudden appearance was less opportune.  (source)
    opportune = favorable
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    But I was pathetic, a blundering liability to my own team, always in the way of an opportune pass or unwittingly blocking an open lane.  (source)
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    So it is not surprising to find that so many accusations against people are in the handwriting of Thomas Putnam, or that his name is so often found as a witness corroborating the supernatural testimony, or that his daughter led the crying-out at the most opportune junctures of the trials...  (source)
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    Individuals of wiser faith, indeed, who knew that Heaven promotes its purposes without aiming at the stage-effect of what is called miraculous interposition, were inclined to see a providential hand in Roger Chillingworth's so opportune arrival.  (source)
    opportune = timely or advantageous
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    During the rare, inopportune social moments when I found myself squeezed between black and white, I fled to the black side,  (source)
    inopportune = bad circumstances
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inopportune means not and reverses the meaning of opportune. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    She began well, thanks to a silent reminder that came to her unexpectedly, but most opportunely.†  (source)
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    And now let us leave Mademoiselle Danglars and her friend pursuing their way to Brussels, and return to poor Andrea Cavalcanti, so inopportunely interrupted in his rise to fortune.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inopportunely means not and reverses the meaning of opportunely. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    I knew well that I risked death; for any drug that so potently controlled and shook the very fortress of identity, might by the least scruple of an overdose or at the least inopportunity in the moment of exhibition, utterly blot out that immaterial tabernacle which I looked to it to change.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inopportunity means not and reverses the meaning of opportunity. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    He tasted her in sips, he let her stand, with an opportuneness she herself could not have surpassed.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    It perplexed, as well as shocked her, by the irreverent inopportuneness of the occasions that brought it into vivid action.  (source)
    inopportuneness = inappropriateness (bad circumstances)
    standard prefix: The prefix "in-" in inopportuneness means not and reverses the meaning of opportuneness. This is the same pattern you see in words like invisible, incomplete, and insecure.
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    And it looks like you have come at an opportune time.†  (source)
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    How do you get rid of a girl who blunders into your hideout at the most inopportune moment, claiming to be the long-lost daughter of the Lioness?†  (source)
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    'Joseph is here,' I answered, catching opportunely the roll of his cartwheels up the road; 'and Heathcliff will come in with him.†  (source)
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