What's the difference between inopportune and opportune?

Inopportune


Definition:

  • (a.) Not opportune; inconvenient; unseasonable; as, an inopportune occurrence, remark, etc.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To prevent inopportune switching, HO transcription is restricted to a specific period in the haploid cell cycle, which is just after, and dependent on, the start of the mitotic cell cycle.
  • (2) The Vatican's spokesman Federico Lombardi insisted the rite took place in "a specific situation in which excluding the girls would have been inopportune in light of the simple aim of communicating a message of love to all".
  • (3) This makes demolition surgery, which is not often well accepted by the patient, inopportune.
  • (4) Inopportune coagulation of blood in vessels is prevented by defense mechanisms, in which plasma inhibitors play an important role.
  • (5) Other morphological radiographic appearances include a risk of misinterpretation and thus inopportune, inadequate or hazardous operative procedures.
  • (6) While Mark Wallinger's Ebbsfleet horse is eagerly awaited, Manchester's B of the Bang, its steel shards falling at disconcertingly inopportune moments, failed.
  • (7) An allergic reaction could occur at a most inopportune time.
  • (8) Indeed, Vidal claimed the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 occurred because the Bush administration was "incompetent" and Bush himself was "inactive and inopportune".
  • (9) All of which feels like an inopportune context for Keith Bristow, the director general of the new National Crime Agency , to request more police powers.
  • (10) Metastases of secreting tumors are verily more rare, nevertheless they are indubitably a major indication for embolisation, since good results are achieved concerning inopportune secretions and repeat embolisations possible are a super advantage.
  • (11) Due to a perfect confluence of inopportune circumstances, I have not been able to get the Talkboard standings from last week tallied up just yet.
  • (12) I lose count of the many times I have been reprimanded for an inopportune frown, eye-roll, or death stare (teachers found the latter particularly unnerving).
  • (13) The timing of the event, the last of three which took place during the week, was seen as inopportune, given the killing of a NYPD officer just days before .
  • (14) Because of this favorable outcome, all inopportune treatments must be avoided, and abstention is the best attitude.
  • (15) Nevertheless, the need to be away from school such as during an important examination, or from work, may be inopportune.
  • (16) The today usual diagnostic procedures in the postoperative follow up control are able to detect liver metastases in most cases only in an inopportune stage for therapy.
  • (17) "It may seem inopportune to be questioning growth while we are faced with daily news of the effects of recession, but allegiance to growth is the most dominant feature of an economic and political system that has led us to the brink of disaster.
  • (18) The remarks, which are unusual in a country where courts do not generally comment on cases before publishing their written reasoning, were reportedly described as "inopportune" by the chairman of the judges' governing body, the CSM.
  • (19) Therefore the separation of the healthy sibling takes frequently an inopportune course and should be adjusted by psychological psychiatric intervention within primary prevention.
  • (20) This tendency, apparently inopportune from the aspects of caries prevention, ensures, however, a permanent low F- level above the enamel surface.

Opportune


Definition:

  • (a.) Convenient; ready; hence, seasonable; timely.
  • (v. t.) To suit.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as the same task confronts the Lib Dems, do we not now have a priceless opportunity to bring the two parties together to undertake a fundamental rethink of the way social democratic principles and policies can be made relevant to modern society.
  • (2) These results indicate that diaphragmed fenestrae are inducible structures, and provide an opportunity to study them in vitro.
  • (3) Prompt diagnosis, in which timely diagnostic laparoscopy and ultrasound evaluation of the pelvis may be helpful, provides the opportunity for prompt laparotomy with untwisting of the torsion and stabilization of the adnexa by suture and cystectomy, if possible, extirpation if not.
  • (4) Monoclonal antibodies to human thyroglobulin may offer a unique opportunity to confirm the tissue origin of cutaneous metastasis.
  • (5) We repeat our call for them to do so at the earliest opportunity, and to share those findings so that we can take any appropriate actions.” In the BBC programme the 29-year-old Rupp, who won 10,000m silver at the London 2012 Olympics behind Farah, was accused of having taken testosterone and being a regular user of the asthma drug prednisone, which is banned in competition.
  • (6) All 17 candidates are going to be participating in debate night and I think that’s a wonderful opportunity Reince Priebus Republican party officials have defended the decision to limit participation, pointing out that the chasing pack will get a chance to debate separately before the main event.
  • (7) The World Humanitarian Summit in May 2016 may be the most timely opportunity to make an honest appraisal of the effectiveness of the current system to deal with the sector’s “ new normal ” of finite resources and unlimited challenges.
  • (8) The opportunities for infection are often strong in areas of high population within a city – schools, for instance.
  • (9) This study suggests that laparoscopy has a role in adhesiolysis of mild and moderate adhesions and SLL provides further opportunity to relyse reformed adhesions in some cases.
  • (10) The intervention represented, for the intervention team, an opportunity to learn community organization and community education skills through active participation in the community.
  • (11) What happened in the past was that if smugglers are sure that European boats are patrolling very close to the Libyan coast, then traffickers use this opportunity to advertise, and say to potential irregular migrants: ‘You will be sure to reach the European coast.
  • (12) It may be better for patients if they are given opportunities to psychologically prepare themselves well in advance of the operation.
  • (13) Assessment opportunities can be identified or structured in any milieu.
  • (14) Not because we are “chippy, moronic gits” (thank you, Twitter), but because we do not see the social benefit of a two-tier education system that provides a small minority with vastly more opportunities than the rest.
  • (15) "The results present a remarkably bleak portrait of life in the UK today and the shrinking opportunities faced by the bottom third of UK society," said the head of the project, Professor David Gordon of Bristol University.
  • (16) The findings suggest that health planning could be considerably enhanced by a better understanding of patient preferences for medical care travel behavior, the origins of these preferences, and their relationship to the use of available medical care opportunities.
  • (17) Throughout the five stages, the student has ample opportunity for expression and self-evaluation in the counseling sessions that accompany each stage.
  • (18) We are looking at all opportunities and every opportunity."
  • (19) A 1-month stay in Bangladesh at the Dhaka Shishu Hospital, made possible by the Canadian Association of Paediatric Surgeons, afforded an invaluable opportunity to be involved in Pediatric Surgery in such a setting.
  • (20) Recent progress with familial adenomatous polyposis illustrates some of the opportunities for prevention of colorectal cancer which may arise with syndrome recognition in the future.