Synonyms of felicitous

felicitous

adjective

fi-ˈli-sə-təs 

1

as in pleasant

giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses

a felicitous accompaniment to dinner is provided by a pianist on weekends at the restaurant

Synonyms & Similar Words

• pleasant
• delightful
• delicious
• enjoyable
• pleasing
• sweet
• nice
• satisfying
• good
• heavenly
• welcome
• congenial
• pleasurable
• agreeable
• pretty
• soothing
• gratifying
• delectable
• amusing
• jolly
• tempting
• comforting
• tasty
• grateful
• dreamy
• palatable
• savory
• blessed
• desirable
• luscious
• comfortable
• blest
• charming
• darling
• dulcet
• fascinating
• happy
• attractive
• savoury
• entertaining
• blissful
• enviable
• delightsome
• enchanting
• cheerful
• alluring
• inviting
• amiable
• joyous
• gracious
• calming
• genial
• relishable
• hospitable
• cheery
• goodly
• affable
• personable
• rapturous
• exhilarating
• good-natured
• ecstatic
• kindly
• recreative
• diverting
• euphoric
• glad
• felicific
• intoxicating
• elating
• gemütlich
• nirvanic

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• disagreeable
• unpleasant
• unwelcome
• offensive
• ghastly
• unpalatable
• horrid
• abominable
• miserable
• unsavory
• repulsive
• repugnant
• wretched
• vile
• odious
• hellish
• obnoxious
• distasteful
• disgusting
• bilious
• detestable
• repellent
• flat
• irksome
• tedious
• commonplace
• abhorrent
• tragic
• boring
• dull
• regrettable
• insipid
• sad
• hateful
• unhappy
• stale
• dismal
• deplorable
• depressing
• gloomy
• lamentable
• lugubrious
• dreary
• disheartening
• pleasureless
• lachrymose
• sorrowful
• mournful
• doleful
• irritating
• tragical
• displeasing
• revulsive
• hostile
• perturbing
• aggravating
• exasperating
• repellant
• vexing
• god-awful
• joyless
• annoying
• dolorous
• heartbreaking
• heartrending
• yucky
• dissatisfying
• yukky
• disturbing
• maddening
• forbidding
• distressing
• infuriating
• intimidating
• upsetting
• peeving
• inflaming
• enflaming
• enraging
• riling
• rankling
• incensing
• angering
• outraging

2

as in suitable

meeting the requirements of a purpose or situation

the museum's restaurant is featuring a French menu as a felicitous complement to the current show on French Impressionism

Synonyms & Similar Words

• suitable
• appropriate
• fitting
• proper
• good
• fitted
• fit
• happy
• apt
• in order
• pretty
• applicable
• balanced
• right
• adequate
• meet
• acceptable
• becoming
• befitting
• satisfactory
• decorous
• needed
• deserved
• requisite
• justified
• capable
• required
• competent
• decent
• able
• correct
• condign
• qualified
• serviceable
• harmonious
• tolerable
• pitch-perfect
• respectable
• just
• rightful
• kosher
• trained
• consonant
• congruous
• cut out
• companionate
• seemly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• improper
• inappropriate
• wrong
• unsuitable
• incongruous
• unhappy
• unseemly
• inapplicable
• indecent
• unfit
• unbecoming
• unfitting
• infelicitous
• incapable
• inapt
• incompetent
• inapposite
• unskilled
• inadequate
• unsatisfactory
• unqualified
• untrained
• inexpert
• unacceptable
• unskillful
• inept
• malapropos
• intolerable
• unapt
• unmeet
• unbeseeming
• incorrect
• indecorous
• misbecoming
• incompatible
• graceless
• uncongenial

Synonym Chooser

How does the adjective felicitous differ from other similar words?

Some common synonyms of felicitous are appropriate, apt, fitting, fit, happy, meet, proper, and suitable. While all these words mean "right with respect to some end, need, use, or circumstance," felicitous suggests an aptness that is opportune, telling, or graceful.

a felicitous phrase

When is appropriate a more appropriate choice than felicitous?

While in some cases nearly identical to felicitous, appropriate implies eminent or distinctive fitness.

an appropriate gift

When might apt be a better fit than felicitous?

Although the words apt and felicitous have much in common, apt connotes a fitness marked by nicety and discrimination.

apt quotations

When would fit be a good substitute for felicitous?

The meanings of fit and felicitous largely overlap; however, fit stresses adaptability and sometimes special readiness for use or action.

fit for battle

When could fitting be used to replace felicitous?

In some situations, the words fitting and felicitous are roughly equivalent. However, fitting implies harmony of mood or tone.

a fitting end

Where would happy be a reasonable alternative to felicitous?

While the synonyms happy and felicitous are close in meaning, happy suggests what is effectively or successfully appropriate.

a happy choice of words

When is it sensible to use meet instead of felicitous?

The words meet and felicitous are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, meet suggests a just proportioning.

meet payment

When can proper be used instead of felicitous?

The synonyms proper and felicitous are sometimes interchangeable, but proper suggests a suitability through essential nature or accordance with custom.

proper acknowledgement

In what contexts can suitable take the place of felicitous?

The words suitable and felicitous can be used in similar contexts, but suitable implies an answering to requirements or demands.

clothes suitable for camping

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of felicitous

And in one of those felicitous culinary accidents like the Toll House cookie, wound up with a gluten-free product. —Florence Fabricant, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024

Pebble Beach was not a felicitous meeting of land and sea. —Doug Ferguson, USA TODAY, 5 Feb. 2024

Ellis-Bextor now joins Kate Bush in the league of criminally underrated British singers who have received a late-career reappraisal thanks to a felicitous TV or film sync. —Vulture, 11 Jan. 2024

That breadth is a felicitous analog to the roaming comedy of the script. —Scott Hocker, theweek, 5 Jan. 2024

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