luckyadjective
uk/ˈlʌk.i/us/ˈlʌk.i/A2 having good things happen to you by chance:
"I'm going to Japan." "Lucky you!"
The lucky winner will be able to choose from three different holidays.
[ + to infinitive ] They're lucky to have such a nice office to work in.
He's lucky that he wasn't fired.
It sounds as if you had a lucky escape (= by good chance you were able to avoid something dangerous or unpleasant).
We'll be lucky if we get there by midnight at this rate (= we might get there by midnight or it might be later).
B1 bringing good luck:
a lucky charm
Six is my lucky number.
More examples
- The front passengers were lucky to survive the accident.
- Some lucky person will win more than $1 000 000 in the competition.
- The youth of today don't know how lucky they are.
- We were very lucky with the weather for our village barbecue.
- My horoscope said I was going to be lucky in love this month.
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
- godsend
- grace
- hapless
- happenstance
- happily
- lap
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- mixed blessing
- Murphy's law
- shame
- stroke
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Idiom(s)
get lucky
you should be so lucky!