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They launched their company at an opportune time.opportune = favorable
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With concern raised by the recent tragedy, this is an opportune time to introduce the legislation.
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The cruelty of fate, however, did not allow Rudy Steiner to enter the kitchen at the opportune moment. (source)opportune = timely or advantageous
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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 circumstancesstandard 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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There was nothing in his voice, no sorrow or pleasure, but Clary could not help but wonder what hidden glee he might feel at having so opportunely lucked into an effective bargaining chip.† (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)inopportunely = with bad circumstances for a particular purpose -- especially the circumstance of timingstandard 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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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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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)inopportunity = lacking circumstances for a particular purposestandard 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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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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If there was one thing she had learned early on about the dead particularly the old dead it was that they were extraordinarily rude, popping up at the most inopportune and inappropriate moments.† (source)inopportune = bad circumstances for a particular purpose -- especially the circumstance of timing
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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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