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Definition of Fortunate
1. Adjective. Having unexpected good fortune. "A fortunate choice"
Also: Lucky, Privileged, Successful
Antonyms: Unfortunate
2. Adjective. Supremely favored. "Golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust"
3. Adjective. Presaging good fortune. "Rosy predictions"
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
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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