| 单词 | opportune |
| 释义 | opportune (once / 53 pages) adj 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. WORD FAMILYopportune: inopportune, opportunely, opportuneness, opportunity+/inopportune: inopportunely, inopportuneness/opportunism: opportunist, opportunistic/opportunist: opportunists/opportunistic: opportunistically/opportunity: opportunism, opportunities USAGE EXAMPLES“Women find that an opportune time to unburden themselves.” New York Times(Dec 16, 2016) Despite the challenges, it is still an opportune time to revisit Davis-Bacon. Wall Street Journal(Dec 02, 2016) The editors acknowledge the challenge of appealing to a German audience but said the timing of the new edition was opportune. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) 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 Syn|Ant advantageous giving an advantage good, right, ripemost suitable or right for a particular purpose seasonable, timely, well timed, well-timeddone or happening at the appropriate or proper time inopportune not opportune disadvantageousconstituting a disadvantage ill-timed, unseasonable, untimely, wrongbadly timed inconvenientnot conveniently timed |
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