fortunatelyadverb
uk/ˈfɔː.tʃən.ət.li/us/ˈfɔːr.tʃən.ət.li/B1 happening because of good luck:
Fortunately, we got home before it started to rain.
Opposite
unfortunately
More examples
- Fortunately, we had come prepared.
- Fortunately, no one was in the building when it collapsed.
- Fortunately, my coat was still where I had left it.
- Fortunately, the ball just missed the window.
- Fortunately, we got to the shop just before it shut.
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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