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serendipitous, a.|sɛrɛnˈdɪpɪtəs|
[f. serendipity + -ous.]
a. Of persons: having the faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident.
1958Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Aug. 468/4 In the matter of adventure Miss de Banke was serendipitous to the nth degree. 1968‘E. McBain’ Fuzz ix. 146 La Brisca seemed to be a serendipitous type who led them on a jolly excursion halfway across the city. 1975Reader's Digest Oct. 150/2 And all for the best, too, as serendipitous San Diegans gladly tell you.
b. (The more usual sense.) Applied to discoveries, meetings, etc., of this kind.
1965J. Wakefield Death the Sure Physician 50 It's rather fortunate that I should come across a chap with similar interests{ddd}distinctly serendipitous, in fact. 1971Nature 20 Aug. 538/2 This suggestion was confirmed by the isolation of a stable tricarbonyliron complex of tetraphenylbutadiene by a serendipitous method (many of the best discoveries in the field have been made by chance). 1979Amer. Speech 1978 LIII. 272 As among these three systems, the girls couldn't have cared less, Yerke's suggestion was serendipitous.
Hence serenˈdipitously adv.
1969C. C. Winter Pract. Urol. vii. 211 Prostatitis is one of the most common of urologic disorders. It may be symptomless and discovered serendipitously in a routine, two glass urinalysis in which the first specimen shows some white blood cells or a few more than in the second glass. 1974Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 29 Nov. 16/3 We can imagine Hodder meeting Stoughton..and their discovering, serendipitously, a mutual interest in books. 1980Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Nov. 1275/4 He had the knack of always being serendipitously on hand when a tenement caught fire. |