happy

lucky, fortunate, happy, providential mean meeting with unforeseen success. lucky stresses the agency of chance in bringing about a favorable result.

• • won because of a lucky bounce

fortunate suggests being rewarded beyond one's deserts.

• • fortunate in my investments

happy combines the implications of lucky and fortunate with stress on being blessed.

• • a series of happy accidents

providential more definitely implies the help or intervention of a higher power.

• • a providential change in the weather

fit, suitable, meet, proper, appropriate, fitting, apt, happy, felicitous mean right with respect to some end, need, use, or circumstance. fit stresses adaptability and sometimes special readiness for use or action.

• • fit for battle

suitable implies an answering to requirements or demands.

• • clothes suitable for camping

meet suggests a just proportioning.

• • meet payment

proper suggests a suitability through essential nature or accordance with custom.

• • proper acknowledgement

appropriate implies eminent or distinctive fitness.

• • an appropriate gift

fitting implies harmony of mood or tone.

• • a fitting end

apt connotes a fitness marked by nicety and discrimination.

• • apt quotations

happy suggests what is effectively or successfully appropriate.

• • a happy choice of words

felicitous suggests an aptness that is opportune, telling, or graceful.

• • a felicitous phrase