felicitous
adj/fəˈlɪsɪtəs/US
Etymology
From felicity + -ous.
- derived from fēlīcitātem
- derived from felicité
- inherited from felicite — “bliss, happiness, joy; delight, pleasure; a source of happiness; good fortune; prosperity; well-being; of a planet: in an influential position”
Definitions
Characterized by felicity.
- As a post-prandial speaker, however, Thackeray was undeniably the reverse of felicitous.
- The recommendations of the experts, however, have not proved very felicitous. […] [S]cant regard has been paid to Albania's much stronger claims, both on ethnographical and on strategical grounds, in the North, […]
Of a sentence or utterance
Of a sentence or utterance: semantically and pragmatically coherent; fitting in the context.
- This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous.
The neighborhood
- neighborfelicity
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for felicitous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA