seasonable

English

seasonable (comparative more seasonable, superlative most seasonable)

Opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury
  Nor is it seasonable to have to do with Hercules, whil'st he is enraged, and amongst the Furies.
Appropriate to the current season of the year.
The temperature outside was quite seasonable, neither warmer nor colder than I had expected.
- 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde
  It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture.
(obsolete) Ephemeral; lasting for just one season.
(obsolete) In season (said of game when it is legal to be hunted and killed).
(obsolete) Well-seasoned; matured (e.g. timber).

appropriate to current season

“seasonable” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.

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