Usually means: Occurring at an inconvenient time.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. inopportune: Merriam-Webster
  2. inopportune: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. inopportune: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. inopportune: Collins English Dictionary
  5. inopportune: Vocabulary.com
  6. Inopportune, inopportune: Wordnik
  7. inopportune: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. inopportune: Wiktionary
  9. inopportune: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. inopportune: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. inopportune: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Inopportune, inopportune: Dictionary.com
  13. inopportune: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. inopportune: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Inopportune: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. inopportune: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. inopportune: Rhymezone
  18. Inopportune: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. inopportune: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. inopportune: FreeDictionary.org
  21. inopportune: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. inopportune: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. inopportune: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. inopportune: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  Unsuitable for some particular purpose.
▸ adjective:  Happening/occurring at an inconvenient or inappropriate time.

Similar:
inconvenient, unseasonable, ill-timed, untimely, wrong, ill timed, unopportune, unapposite, unsuited, unfit, more...

Opposite:
opportune, timely, advantageous, favorable

Adjectives:
little, present, such, most, favourite, highest


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Similar:
inconvenient, unseasonable, ill-timed, untimely, wrong, ill timed, unopportune, unapposite, unsuited, unfit, more...

Opposite:
opportune, timely, advantageous, favorable

Adjectives:
little, present, such, most, favourite, highest



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