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fluky

adjective
variants: also flukey

Synonyms and Antonyms of fluky

1 coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedly

  • a fluky coincidence that kept me safely at home when the blizzard hit
Synonyms of fluky

fortuitous, fortunate, happy, heaven-sent, lucky, providential
Words Related to fluky

convenient, opportune, seasonable, timely

unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked-for

accidental, chance, coincidental, serendipitous

auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious

benign, favorable, golden, good, halcyon

advantageous, beneficial, profitable
Near Antonyms of fluky

inconvenient, inopportune, unseasonable, untimely

anticipated, expected, foreseen

deliberate, intentional, planned

inauspicious, unpromising

calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous
Antonyms of fluky

hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, luckless, star-crossed, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky

2 happening by chance

  • the fluky selection of consecutive numbers on consecutive days of the lottery
Synonyms of fluky

accidental, casual, chance, fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditated, unwitting
Words Related to fluky

coincidental

freak, odd

aimless, arbitrary, desultory, haphazard, random

uncertain, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen

coerced, forced, involuntary

unconscious, unprompted
Near Antonyms of fluky

certain, destined, expected, fixed, foreordained, foreseeable, foreseen, inevitable, predestined, predetermined, predictable, preordained, prescribed, sure

conscious, freewill, knowing, unforced, voluntary, volunteer, willful (or wilful)
Antonyms of fluky

calculated, deliberate, intended, intentional, planned, premeditated, premeditative, prepense, set

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