ˌən-ˈsēz-nə-bəl
as in early
occurring before the usual or expected time
an unseasonable snowstorm in early November
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Recent Examples of unseasonable
As this unseasonable heat returns, the National Weather Service is urging residents in South Florida to take necessary precautions to avoid heat illnesses and heat exhaustion.
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Lissette Gonzalez,
CBS News,
6 May 2026
The cooling will be a stark contrast to the unseasonable heat that pushed temperatures into the lower 90s for the first time this year.
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Newsroom Meteorologist,
Houston Chronicle,
30 Apr. 2026
An unseasonable weather pattern that included heavy rain and sweltering heat served as a signal for rattlesnakes to slither out of their underground winter burrows in search of food and mates.
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Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
Record-breaking heat is expected to take hold across states from the Plains to the Northeast this week, causing temperatures to soar to unseasonable highs.
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Denise Chow,
NBC news,
14 Apr. 2026
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Lissette Gonzalez,
CBS News,
6 May 2026
The cooling will be a stark contrast to the unseasonable heat that pushed temperatures into the lower 90s for the first time this year.
—
Newsroom Meteorologist,
Houston Chronicle,
30 Apr. 2026
An unseasonable weather pattern that included heavy rain and sweltering heat served as a signal for rattlesnakes to slither out of their underground winter burrows in search of food and mates.
—
Karen Garcia,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2026
Record-breaking heat is expected to take hold across states from the Plains to the Northeast this week, causing temperatures to soar to unseasonable highs.
—
Denise Chow,
NBC news,
14 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unseasonable
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Hours after a woman was found shot to death in a Cedar Hill home early Thursday, detectives arrested her boyfriend on a murder charge, police said.
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The lake's level typically bottoms out each spring before melting snow begins refilling it through early summer.
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The exercise also included unexpected financial setbacks.
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The settlement that ended Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively's blockbuster legal war began with an unexpected Friday night phone call.
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From a fatal weekend crash on the I-184 Connector to a sudden summer cooldown, here’s a roundup of top stories the Idaho Statesman has published this week.
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The blockbuster rulings that dominate the news cycle each June are not sudden flashes of judicial willpower.
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Why Basquiat endures Sirmans said there are many reasons why more than three decades after his untimely death from a drug overdose in 1988 at the age of 27, Basquiat remains one of the defining artists of the late 20th century.
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Following the untimely demise of his Jon Spencer Blues Explosion in 2016, Spencer released the Spencer Gets it Lit album alongside The HITmakers in 2022.
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Hopkins pounced when Larson welcomed questions, suggesting the press conference was premature, given that the congressman had no precise information about why Cecunjanin had been detained.
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And many aspects of her identity have come into fashion recently, decades after her premature death in 1954.
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That’s why my millennial children listen to that sixty-year-old music now, whereas, in 1964, only a precocious Mahler buff would have listened to the music of 1904.
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Sandeep is nothing loath to make trouble for his annoyingly precocious little sister.
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These headwinds are particularly inopportune for the spring market, traditionally the busiest for the housing sector.
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Golden State played uncharacteristically, giving up open shots and turning the ball over at inopportune times.
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“Unseasonable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unseasonable. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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