Word Meanings - OPPORTUNE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Convenient; ready; hence, seasonable; timely. Milton. This is most opportune to our need. Shak. -- Op`por*tune"ly, adv. -- Op`por*tune"ness, n. (more info) before the port; ob + a derivative of portus port, harbor.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OPPORTUNE)
- auspicious
- Propitious
- lucky
- favorable
- encouraging
- satisfactory
- successful
- hopeful
- promising
- happy
- golden
- fortunate
- opportune
- prosperous
- Convenient
- Handy
- apt
- adapted
- fitted
- suitable
- helpful
- commodious
- useful
- timely
- seasonable
- Felicitous
- Happy
- joyous
- Ready
- Prompt
- alert
- expeditions
- speedy
- unhesitating
- dexterous
- skilful
- handy
- expert
- facile
- easy
- prepared
- disposed
- willing
- free
- cheerful
- compliant
- responsive
- quick
- Seasonable
- fit
- grateful
- welcome
- periodical
- normal
Related words: (words related to OPPORTUNE)
- EXPERT
Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery. A valiant and most expert - WILLOWER
A willow. See Willow, n., 2. - DISPOSEMENT
Disposal. Goodwin. - PROMISSORILY
In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne. - PROMPT-BOOK
The book used by a prompter of a theater. - SKILFUL
See SKILFUL - AUSPICIOUS
1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years. - DISPOSURE
1. The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction. Give up My estate to his disposure. Massinger. 2. Disposition; arrangement; position; posture. In a kind of warlike disposure. Sir H. Wotton. - LUCKY PROACH
See FATHERLASHER - COMMODIOUSLY
In a commodious manner. To pass commodiously this life. Milton. - ADAPTABLE
Capable of being adapted. - DISPOSITED
Disposed. Glanvill. - WILLING
1. Free to do or to grant; having the mind inclined; not opposed in mind; not choosing to refuse; disposed; not averse; desirous; consenting; complying; ready. Felix, willing to show the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound. Acts xxiv. 27. With wearied - ENCOURAGER
One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison. - GOLDEN
1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. 2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. 3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. Golden age. The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of - SATISFACTORY
1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification, - DISPOSITOR
The planet which is lord of the sign where another planet is. Crabb. (more info) 1. A disposer. - WILLIWAW; WILLYWAW
A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan. W. C. Russell. - DISPOSE
Etym: 1. To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent. Who hath disposed the whole world Job xxxiv. 13. All ranged in order and disposed with grace. Pope. The rest themselves in - DISPOSEDNESS
The state of being disposed or inclined; inclination; propensity. - PERIODIC; PERIODICAL
Of or pertaining to a period; constituting a complete sentence. Periodic comet , a comet that moves about the sun in an elliptic orbit; a comet that has been seen at two of its approaches to the sun. -- Periodic function , a function whose values - CAUSEFUL
Having a cause. - COMPROMISE
promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both - ENQUICKEN
To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More. - UNPROMISE
To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman. - IMPREPARATION
Want of preparation. Hooker. - SWILLINGS
See 1 - INGRATEFUL
1. Ungrateful; thankless; unappreciative. Milton. He proved extremely false and ingrateful to me. Atterbury. 2. Unpleasing to the sense; distasteful; offensive. He gives . . . no ingrateful food. Milton. -- In"grate`ful*ly, adv. -- In"grate`ful*ness,