| Main Entry: | fortunate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having good luck |
Synonyms: |
advantageous, affluent, auspicious, blessed, born with a silver spoon, bright, charmed, convenient, encouraging, favorable, favored, felicitous, flourishing, fortuitous, gaining, get a break, golden, happy, healthy, helpful, hopeful, in luck, in the gravy, lucky, on a roll, opportune, overcoming, profitable, promising, propitious, prosperous, providential, rosy, sitting pretty, successful, sunny side, thriving, timely, triumphant, victorious, wealthy, well-off, well-to-do |
| Notes: | fortunate means having unexpected good fortune or luck; fortuitous means happening by chance or coming or occurring by accident or without any known cause |
Antonyms: |
adverse, sad, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, upset |
| Main Entry: | advantageous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | favorable |
Synonyms: |
auspicious, beneficial, expedient, for the best, fortunate, helpful, opportune, profitable, propitious, worthwhile |
| Main Entry: | auspicious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | encouraging; favorable |
Synonyms: |
advantageous, bright, favorable, felicitous, fortunate, golden, halcyon, happy, hopeful, lucky, opportune, promising, propitious, prosperous, rosy, timely, well-timed |
| Notes: | auspicious implies success in the future while propitious means favorable conditions are present; auspicious means promising or of good omen - not just special or memorable |
Antonyms: |
inauspicious, inopportune, ominous, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky |
| Main Entry: | benign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | mild, especially describing weather |
Synonyms: |
auspicious, balmy, bright, favorable, fortunate, gentle, healthful, propitious, refreshing, temperate, warm |
Antonyms: |
bad, severe |
| Main Entry: | benign |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | advantageous |
Synonyms: |
auspicious, beneficent, benevolent, bright, charitable, dexter, encouraging, favorable, fortunate, good, lucky, merciful, propitious, salutary, smiling |
Antonyms: |
disadvantageous, harmful, hurtful |
| Main Entry: | blessed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happy |
Synonyms: |
blissful, content, contented, endowed, favored, fortunate, glad, granted, joyful, joyous, lucky |
Antonyms: |
condemned, cursed, damned, unblessed, unfavored, unhappy, unlucky |
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accidental, unforeseeable |
Synonyms: |
adventitious, at random, casual, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, fortunate, happy, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, odd, offhand, unforeseen, unintentional, unlooked for, unplanned |
Antonyms: |
designed, foreseeable, planned, understood |
| Main Entry: | enviable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | desired, blessed |
Synonyms: |
advantageous, covetable, desirable, excellent, favored, fortunate, good, lucky, privileged, superior, welcome |
Antonyms: |
disadvantaged, undesirable, undesired, unenviable, unfavored, unlucky |
| Main Entry: | favorable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | good, timely, advantageous |
Synonyms: |
appropriate, auspicious, benefic, beneficial, benign, bright, cheering, convenient, encouraging, fair, fit, fortunate, full of promise, gratifying, happy, healthful, helpful, hopeful, kindly, lucky, nice, opportune, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable, pleasureful, promising, propitious, prosperous, providential, reassuring, seasonable, suitable, toward, useful, welcome, well-timed, wholesome, worthy |
Antonyms: |
bad, derogatory, detrimental, harmful, hindering, hurtful, hurting, injurious, unfavorable, unhelpful |
| Main Entry: | fluke |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance occurrence |
Synonyms: |
accident, blessing, break, contingency, fortuity, fortunate, fortune, good fortune, good luck, incident, lucky break, odd chance, quirk, stroke of luck, windfall |
Antonyms: |
certainty, design, plan |