inopportune
adjective /ɪnˈɒpətjuːn/
/ɪnˌɑːpərˈtuːn/
(formal)- happening at a bad time
synonym inappropriate, inconvenient不合时宜的;不是时候的 - They arrived at an inopportune moment.
他们到的不是时候。
Collocations DictionaryInopportune is used with these nouns:- moment
词源early 16th cent.: from Latin inopportunus, from in- ‘not’ + opportunus, from ob- ‘in the direction of’ + portus ‘harbour’, originally describing the wind driving towards the harbour, hence ‘seasonable’. - They arrived at an inopportune moment.