Word Meanings - FORTUNATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. 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. 2. Receiving same unforeseen
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1. 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. 2. Receiving same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky. Syn. -- Auspicious; lucky; prosperous; successful; favored; happy. -- Fortunate, Successful, Prosperous. A man is fortunate, when he is favored of fortune, and has unusual blessings fall to his lot; successful when he gains what he aims at; prosperous when he succeeds in those things which men commonly desire. One may be fortunate, in some cases, where he is not successful; he may be successful, but, if he has been mistaken in the value of what he has aimed at, he may for that reason fail to be prosperous.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORTUNATE)
- auspicious
- Propitious
- lucky
- favorable
- encouraging
- satisfactory
- successful
- hopeful
- promising
- happy
- golden
- fortunate
- opportune
- prosperous
- Happy
- Lucky
- felicitous
- delighted
- joyous
- merry
- blithesome
- glad
- blissful
- Fortunate
- Timely
- beneficial
- friendly
- welldisposed
- gracious
- benign
Related words: (words related to FORTUNATE)
- PROMISSORILY
In a promissory manner. Sir T. Browne. - AUSPICIOUS
1. Having omens or tokens of a favorable issue; giving promise of success, prosperity, or happiness; predicting good; as, an auspicious beginning. Auspicious union of order and freedom. Macaulay. 2. Prosperous; fortunate; as, auspicious years. - DELIGHTING
Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor. - LUCKY PROACH
See FATHERLASHER - DELIGHTLESS
Void of delight. Thomson. - ENCOURAGER
One who encourages, incites, or helps forward; a favorer. The pope is . . . a great encourager of arts. Addison. - GOLDEN
1. Made of gold; consisting of gold. 2. Having the color of gold; as, the golden grain. 3. Very precious; highly valuable; excellent; eminently auspicious; as, golden opinions. Golden age. The fabulous age of primeval simplicity and purity of - MERRY-ANDREW
One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor. Note: This term is said to have originated from one Andrew Borde, an English physician of the 16th century, who - SATISFACTORY
1. Giving or producing satisfaction; yielding content; especially, relieving the mind from doubt or uncertainty, and enabling it to rest with confidence; sufficient; as, a satisfactory account or explanation. 2. Making amends, indemnification, - BENEFICIAL
Receiving, or entitled to have or receive, advantage, use, or benefit; as, the beneficial owner of an estate. Kent. 3. King. "A beneficial foe." B. Jonson. Syn. -- See Advantage. (more info) 1. Conferring benefits; useful; profito. The war which - FAVORABLE
1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate; - FORTUNATE
1. 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. 2. Receiving same unforeseen - FRIENDLY
1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3. - DELIGHTOUS
Delightful. Rom. of R. - MERRYMAKING
Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly. - HAPPY
1. Favored by hap, luck, or fortune; lucky; fortunate; successful; prosperous; satisfying desire; as, a happy expedient; a happy effort; a happy venture; a happy omen. Chymists have been more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them. - ENCOURAGING
Furnishing ground to hope; inspiriting; favoring. -- En*cour"a*ging*ly, adv. - BENIGNLY
In a benign manner. - SUCCESSFUL
Resulting in success; assuring, or promotive of, success; accomplishing what was proposed; having the desired effect; hence, prosperous; fortunate; happy; as, a successful use of medicine; a successful experiment; a successful enterprise. Welcome, - FELICITOUS
Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skilful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate. Felicitous words and images. M. Arnold. -- Fe*lic"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Fe*lic"i*tous*ness, n. - COMPROMISE
promise to abide by the decision of an arbiter, fr. compromittere to 1. A mutual agreement to refer matters in dispute to the decision of arbitrators. Burrill. 2. A settlement by arbitration or by mutual consent reached by concession on both - UNPROMISE
To revoke or annul, as a promise. Chapman. - DISGRACIOUS
Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak. - IMPROSPEROUS
Not prosperous. Dryden. -- Im*pros"per*ous*ly, adv. -- Im*pros"per*ous*ness, n. - INOPPORTUNELY
Not opportunely; unseasonably; inconveniently. - FOREPROMISED
Promised beforehand; preëngaged. Bp. Hall. - UNSUCCESSFUL
Not successful; not producing the desired event; not fortunate; meeting with, or resulting in, failure; unlucky; unhappy. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ly, adv. -- Un`suc*cess"ful*ness, n. - UNFAVORABLE
Not favorable; not propitious; adverse; contrary; discouraging. -- Un*fa"vor*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*fa"vor*a*bly, adv.