fortunate
adjEtymology
From Middle English fortunat(e) (“fortunate”), from Latin fortūnātus, from fortūna (“fortune, luck”) + -ātus (adjective-forming suffix), see -ate (adjective-forming suffix). See also Middle English fortunaten (“to assure the success (of), make fortunate”); cognate with French fortuné (“lucky”). By surface analysis, fortune + -ate.
- derived from fortūnātus
Definitions
Auspicious.
- It is a fortunate sign if the sun shines on a newly wedded couple.
- if it sits still, with its breast towards them, till they have passed, they consider it as a fortunate sign, and everything is expected to go on well during the remainder of their journey
Happening by good luck or favorable chance.
- Patrick was the unlikely match-winner as Berkeley earned a fortunate victory over Chisolm.
- How many lucky winners, Regnault lamented, boastfully ascribe their success to wise decisions while in reality their triumph was nothing more than the fortunate outcome of random events?
- Weiner acknowledges that a stroke of good luck has helped steer her to a more fortunate path early on in life.
Favored by fortune.
- We were fortunate not to be fined for speeding.
- This is a time when we think of those less fortunate than ourselves.
The neighborhood
- synonymauspicious
- synonymlucky
- synonymsuccessful
- synonymprosperous
- antonymunlucky
- antonymunfortunate
- neighborunluckily
- neighborluckily
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at fortunate. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at fortunate. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
9 hops · closes at fortunate
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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