Definitions for opportune

opportune op·por·tune

Spelling: [op-er-toon, -tyoon]
IPA: /ˌɒp ərˈtun, -ˈtyun/

Opportune is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 260 anagrams from letters in opportune (enoopprtu).

Definitions for opportune

adjective

  1. appropriate, favorable, or suitable:
  2. occurring or coming at an appropriate time; well-timed:

Origin of opportune

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin opportūnus convenient, equivalent to op- op- + portu-, stem of portus access, port1 + -nus adj.

Examples for opportune

For, whatever it may have been to others, to us your raid upon Barbados was most opportune.

This is also an opportune time, I suppose, to bring back Allen Guelzo's epic review of the movie.

He was the mountain peddler, and to-day, at least, his visit was opportune.

And that sort of specificity, for a politician rebuilding his image, will never be opportune.

Overall, the retreat and its unusual list of speakers comes at an opportune time for the House GOP.

Regional, global, and political conditions were all converging to make this an opportune moment to advance negotiations.

Hagthorpe announced at once that the proposal was opportune.

If it be a loan, Seor, I fear that the time is not opportune.

It is not my fault, Bella, the opportune gentleman don't come!

But he also knew that the moment for ordering mass variolation would have to be opportune.

Word Value for opportune
Scrable

13

Words with friends

17

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