Definition of serendipitous in English:
serendipitous
adjective ˌsɛr(ə)nˈdɪpɪtəsˌsɛrənˈdɪpədəs
Occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
a serendipitous encounter
Example sentencesExamples
- Her career was a collection of serendipitous and fortuitous events that entice one to believe she was fated to succeed.
- Sometimes success is as much accidental or serendipitous as planned.
- And this was totally serendipitous, unexpected, it just came out as we started writing this material up about a year ago.
- Formerly independent inventors had less say in what they would investigate and less room to follow their serendipitous discoveries.
- In a serendipitous coincidence, the Arts Council's new plan included a focus on criticism as an art form.
Synonyms
chance, accidental
lucky, fortuitous
unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for
coincidental
informal fluky
Derivatives
adverb
It turned out that my first day in the USA, entirely serendipitously, had coincided with the weekend that the 1968 Democratic National Convention was getting under way.
Example sentencesExamples
- Martin's investigation of this mystery, while still in New York, coincided serendipitously with his overcooking of a pot of rice.
- But serendipitously, one of the helpers that had been assisting one of the suspects was caught on one of our closed circuit television cameras that the museum had installed, and he was found to be carrying a bucket.
- It's kinda something that just serendipitously happens.
- The intimacy and humanity of these serendipitously encountered green areas in what will again become a densely populated place is one of the great pleasures of this plan.
Definition of serendipitous in US English:
serendipitous
adjectiveˌserənˈdipədəsˌsɛrənˈdɪpədəs
Occurring or discovered by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
a serendipitous encounter
Example sentencesExamples
- In a serendipitous coincidence, the Arts Council's new plan included a focus on criticism as an art form.
- Her career was a collection of serendipitous and fortuitous events that entice one to believe she was fated to succeed.
- And this was totally serendipitous, unexpected, it just came out as we started writing this material up about a year ago.
- Formerly independent inventors had less say in what they would investigate and less room to follow their serendipitous discoveries.
- Sometimes success is as much accidental or serendipitous as planned.