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opportune

Use the adjective opportune to describe especially good timing. A snowstorm is an opportune time to make extra money shoveling your neighbor's driveway.

You can see the word opportunity in opportune. Both words come from the Latin word opportunus, meaning "favorable," which itself is derived from a phrase that describes wind blowing toward a port. Just as the wind helps speed ships toward shore, something that is opportune offers favorable circumstances for accomplishing something or doing something.

DEFINITIONS OF: opportune

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adj suitable or at a time that is suitable or advantageous especially for a particular purpose

“an opportune place to make camp”
“an opportune arrival”
Synonyms
advantageous
giving an advantage
good, right, ripe
most suitable or right for a particular purpose
seasonable, timely, well timed, well-timed
done or happening at the appropriate or proper time
Antonyms:
inopportune
not opportune
disadvantageous
constituting a disadvantage
ill-timed, unseasonable, untimely, wrong
badly timed
inconvenient
not conveniently timed
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