Entry Word: fortunate

Function: adjective

Meaning: 1 coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedly <in a fortunate turn of events, the motel had one last vacancy>

Synonyms fluky, fortuitous, happy, lucky, providential

Related Words convenient, opportune, seasonable, timely; unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked-for; accidental, chance, coincidental; auspicious, bright, fair, promising, propitious; benign, favorable, golden, good; advantageous, beneficial, profitable

Near Antonyms inconvenient, inopportune, unseasonable, untimely; anticipated, expected, foreseen; deliberate, intentional, planned; inauspicious, unpromising

Antonyms luckless, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky

2 having good luck <rabbits' feet are seen as making the carrier of them fortunate> — see lucky 1