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Definition/Meaning

(adjective)

possessing good fortune;

e.g. He thought himself lucky to have met and known her before she passed away.

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Similar Words

Contingent

Fluky

Fortuitous

Fortunate

Happy

Heaven-sent

Providential

Scattershot

Serendipitous

Shotgun

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Opposite Words

Anticipated

Calamitous

Cataclysmic

Cursed

Damning

Deliberate

Deplorable

Deprived

Destructive

Disadvantaged

Disastrous

Distressful

Fatal

Fateful

Grievous

Hapless

Heartbreaking

Heartrending

Ill-fated

Ill-starred

Inauspicious

Inconvenient

Inopportune

Intentional

Lamentable

Regrettable

Ruinous

Snakebit

Star-crossed

Tragic

Traumatic

Underprivileged

Unfortunate

Unlucky

Unpromising

Unseasonable

Untimely

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Related Words

Accidental

Advantageous

Aimless

Arbitrary

Auspicious

Beneficial

Benign

Blessed

Bright

Catch-as-catch-can

Chance

Coincidental

Convenient

Desultory

Encouraging

Erratic

Fair

Favorable

Favored

Gifted

Golden

Good

Halcyon

Haphazard

Helter-skelter

Hit-or-miss

Hopeful

Hot

Opportune

Privileged

Profitable

Promising

Propitious

Random

Seasonable

Serendipitous

Slapdash

Stray

Timely

Unexpected

Unforeseen

Unlooked-for

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