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Opportune

Convenient; ready; hence, seasonable; timely.

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Good 84% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

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Good 84% connected

Possessing desirable qualities; adapted to answer the end designed; promoting success, welfare, or happiness; serviceable; useful; fit; excellent; ad…

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Right 84% connected

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

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Right 84% connected

Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.

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Ripe 84% connected

The bank of a river.

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Ripe 84% connected

The bank of a river.

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Seasonable 84% connected

Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain.

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Seasonable 84% connected

Occurring in good time, in due season, or in proper time for the purpose; suitable to the season; opportune; timely; as, a seasonable supply of rain.

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Timely 84% connected

Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable.

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Timely 84% connected

Being or occurring in good time; sufficiently early; seasonable.

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Chance 74% connected

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Chance 74% connected

A supposed material or psychical agent or mode of activity other than a force, law, or purpose; fortune; fate; -- in this sense often personified.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Advantageous 66% connected

Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.

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Advantageous 66% connected

Being of advantage; conferring advantage; gainful; profitable; useful; beneficial; as, an advantageous position; trade is advantageous to a nation.

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Favorable 66% connected

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.

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Favorable 66% connected

Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly.

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Favourable 66% connected

(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"

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Favourable 66% connected

(of winds or weather) tending to promote or facilitate; "the days were fair and the winds were favorable"

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Inopportune 94% connected

Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable; as, an inopportune occurrence, remark, etc.

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Inopportune 94% connected

Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable; as, an inopportune occurrence, remark, etc.

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