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fortuitous

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of fortuitous

1 coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedly
  • Your arrival just before the thunderstorm was fortuitous.
Synonyms of fortuitous

fluky (also flukey), fortunate, happy, lucky, providential
Words Related to fortuitous

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 fortuitous

inconvenient, inopportune, unseasonable, untimely

anticipated, expected, foreseen

deliberate, intentional, planned

inauspicious, unpromising

calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous
Antonyms of fortuitous

hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, luckless, star-crossed, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky
2 happening by chance
  • She firmly believes that the creation of the universe was something other than just the fortuitous coming together of particles of matter.
Synonyms of fortuitous

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

coincidental

freak, odd

aimless, arbitrary, desultory, haphazard, random

uncertain, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen

coerced, forced, involuntary

unconscious, unprompted
Near Antonyms of fortuitous

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 fortuitous

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

Synonym Discussion of fortuitous

accidental, fortuitous, casual, contingent mean not amenable to planning or prediction. accidental stresses chance.
    • any resemblance to actual persons is entirely accidental
fortuitous so strongly suggests chance that it often connotes entire absence of cause.
    • a series of fortuitous events
casual stresses lack of real or apparent premeditation or intent.
    • a casual encounter with a stranger
contingent suggests possibility of happening but stresses uncertainty and dependence on other future events for existence or occurrence.
    • the contingent effects of the proposed law

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