fortuitousadjective
uk/fɔːˈtʃuː.ɪ.təs/us/fɔːrˈtuː.ə.t̬əs/formal(of something that is to your advantage) not planned, happening by chance:
The timing of the meeting is certainly fortuitous.
The collapse of its rivals was a fortuitous opportunity for the company.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Chance and randomness
- accident
- arbitrary
- as luck would have it idiom
- be the luck of the draw idiom
- casual
- circumstance
- haphazard
- happen
- happenstance
- harum-scarum
- hit-and-miss
- lottery
- more by accident than design idiom
- more by luck than judgment idiom
- one in a million idiom
- postcode lottery
- pot luck
- serendipity
- stochastic
- stumble into sth
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fortuitously
adverb uk/fɔːˈtʃuː.ɪ.təs.li/us/fɔːrˈtuː.ə.t̬əs.li/
fortuitousness
noun [ U ] uk/fɔːˈtʃuː.ɪ.təs.nəs/us/fɔːrˈtuː.ə.t̬əs.nəs/