inopportune
adjective/ɪnˈɒpətjuːn/
/ɪnˌɑːpərˈtuːn/
(formal)- happening at a bad time synonym inappropriate, inconvenient
- They arrived at an inopportune moment.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryInopportune is used with these nouns:- moment
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from Latin inopportunus, from in- ‘not’ + opportunus, from ob- ‘in the direction of’ + portus ‘harbour’, originally describing the wind driving towards the harbour, hence ‘seasonable’.Definitions on the go
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