Definition of Fortunate

1. Adjective. Having unexpected good fortune. "A fortunate choice"


2. Adjective. Supremely favored. "Golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust"
Exact synonyms: Golden
Similar to: Blessed, Blest

3. Adjective. Presaging good fortune. "Rosy predictions"
Exact synonyms: Rosy
Similar to: Auspicious

Definition of Fortunate

1. a. Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment.

Definition of Fortunate

1. Adjective. Coming by good luck or favorable chance. ¹

2. Adjective. Bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain. ¹

3. Adjective. Presaging happiness. ¹

4. Adjective. Auspicious. ¹

5. Adjective. Receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts. ¹

6. Adjective. Lucky, favored by fortune. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fortunate

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fortunate

fortread
fortress
fortressed
fortresses
fortressing
fortresslike
forts
fortuit
fortuities
fortuitism
fortuitous
fortuitously
fortuitousness
fortuituous
fortuity
fortunate (current term)
fortunately
fortunateness
fortunatenesses
fortunates
fortune
fortune-teller
fortune-tellers
fortune-telling
fortune cookie
fortune cookies
fortune favors the bold
fortune favors the brave
fortune favours the bold
fortune favours the brave

Literary usage of Fortunate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1825)
"It required civil wars such a fortunate mixture of different tempers fusion!11" and abilities, as could scarcely be found or even AP- expected a second time ..."

2. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... repel them, and show i; .it, even when attended by weakness and misfortunes, your -Kill is ni] »emir to tbo fortunate strength of any other*. 04. ..."

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