inopportune

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   occurring at an unsuitable or inconvenient time

   The phone rang at the most inopportune moment of the speech.

From Latin inopportunus ('unsuitable, inconvenient'), from in- ('not') + opportunus ('fit, timely'), originally a nautical term meaning '(driving) toward the harbor', from ob ('toward') + portus ('harbor, port').

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