fortunateadjective
uk/ˈfɔː.tʃən.ət/us/ˈfɔːr.tʃən.ət/approvingB2 lucky:
[ + to infinitive ] You're very fortunate to have found such a nice house.
He was fortunate in his choice of assistant.
[ + that ] It was fortunate that they had set out early because the traffic was terrible.
Opposite
unfortunate
More examples
- Let us pray for those who are not so fortunate as ourselves - the sick, the old and the needy.
- I consider myself fortunate to have had such a good education.
- She was fortunate to escape with only minor injuries.
- We certainly were fortunate to get a fine day for the fete, considering how wet it's been lately.
- "My husband arrived home just at that moment, which scared the intruder away." "Gosh, that was fortunate."
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Good luck and bad luck
- a blessing in disguise idiom
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- be a good idiom
- be bad luck on sb idiom
- be down on your luck idiom
- blessing
- favour
- grace
- hapless
- happenstance
- happily
- hard luck! idiom
- lap
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- mixed blessing
- Murphy's law
- shame
- stroke
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