felicitous, fortuitous, fortunate
- felicitous, fortuitous, fortunate
Felicitous means "well-suited," "apt," "appropriate": "The speaker's felicitous joke put the audience in a jovial mood." Fortuitous means "accidental," "produced by chance," "lucky": "Our meeting today on the street is fortuitous." "A typical success story is filled with fortuitous events." Fortunate means "resulting favorably," "having good fortune," "auspicious": "It is fortunate that you slowed down before reaching the curve." Some fortuitous happenings may be both felicitous and fortunate, but the three words are not usually synonymous.
Dictionary of problem words and expressions.
Harry Shaw.
1975.
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fortuitous — adj 1. chance, serendipitous, Inf. fluky or flukey; unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked for; casual, random, haphazard, hit or miss, arbitrary. 2. accidental, unintentional, unpremeditated, unplanned, undesigned; indeliberate,… … A Note on the Style of the synonym finder
