lucky
/ˈlʌki
/adjective (luckier, luckiest)
Having, bringing, or resulting from good luck: you had a very lucky escape three’s my lucky number...
- She felt so lucky to be the one able to have this son.
- I don't know how I got so lucky to get a girlfriend like you.
- But a lot of people here, you know, they feel pretty lucky just to get that.
Synonyms
fortunate, in luck, blessed, blessed with good luck, favoured, born under a lucky star, charmed;
successful, prosperous, happy;
advantaged, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
British informal jammy
providential, fortunate, advantageous, timely, opportune, serendipitous, expedient, heaven-sent, auspicious, propitious, felicitous, convenient, apt;
chance, fortuitous, accidental, unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for, coincidental
informal fluky
Phrases
get lucky
lucky devil (or lucky you, her, etc.)
you (or he etc.) will be lucky (or should be so lucky)
Derivatives
luckiness
/ noun ...- If you consider yourself ‘Lucky’, then when good things happen to you you attribute it to your luckiness, but when bad things happen, you ignore them or find something else to blame.
- The first question of this scale asks people to indicate their perceived luckiness, the second their perceived unluckiness.
- When a player loses his luckiness bankroll is debited by the sum of the bets multiplied by his probability of losing.
Rhymes
- be the death of
- be the despair of
- bet-hedging
- be the end
- Bethel
- be the limit
- be (the) living proof that (or of)
- Bethel Park
- be the making of someone
- be the marrying kind
- be the most
- be the pits
- be there for
- Bethesda
- be the shit
- be the shizzle
- be the spit (or the dead spit) of
- be thick on the ground
- be thick (or thin) on the ground
- bethink
- Bethlehem
- be thrown back on
- Bethune, Henry Norman
- be tickets
- be tickled pink (or to death)