Synonyms of felicitous

felicitous 1 of 2

adjective

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

felicitousness

2 of 2

noun

as in relevance

the quality or state of being especially suitable or fitting

guests remarked on the perfect felicitousness of the rose garden as a site for a June wedding

Synonyms & Similar Words

• relevance
• fitness
• appropriateness
• validity
• usefulness
• suitability
• happiness
• applicability
• relevancy
• felicity
• rightness
• propriety
• appositeness
• aptness
• properness
• seemliness
• suitableness
• compatibility
• convenience
• fittingness
• acceptability
• agreeableness
• harmoniousness
• pertinence
• connection
• bearing
• expediency
• adequacy
• satisfactoriness
• congruity
• justifiability
• materiality
• expedience
• serviceableness
• adequateness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unfitness
• wrongness
• unsuitability
• impropriety
• incompatibility
• infelicity
• inappropriateness
• incongruity
• incongruence
• inappositeness
• improperness
• disagreeableness
• inexpediency
• unseemliness
• irrelevance
• inaptness
• inapplicability
• inexpedience
• inharmoniousness
• irrelevancy
• unbecomingness
• immateriality
• meaninglessness
• incongruousness
• pointlessness

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