fortunately

adv
/ˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/UK/ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/US/ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nətli/

Etymology

From fortunate + -ly.

  1. derived from fortūnātus
  2. inherited from fortunat — “fortunate
  3. formed as fortunately — “fortunate + -ly

Definitions

  1. In a fortunate manner.

  2. It is (or was, etc) fortunate that.

    • Fortunately for Sam, his pet hamster was alive.
    • My mom has fortunately agreed to help us with the science project for school.
    • […]the best thing to do is to curl up with a good goose-flesher and try to forget, and fortunately I had packed among my effects one called Murder at Greystone Grange.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for fortunately. 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