| Main Entry: | lucky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fortunate, opportune |
Synonyms: |
advantageous, adventitious, all systems go, auspicious, beneficial, benign, blessed, charmed, coming up roses, everything going, favored, felicitous, fortuitous, getting a break, golden, happy, hit it big, holding aces, hopeful, hot*, in the groove, into something, on a roll, on a streak, promising, propitious, prosperous, providential, serendipitous, striking it rich, successful, timely, well |
Antonyms: |
bad, inopportune, unfortunate, unlucky, unpropitious, unsuccessful |
| 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: | 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: | favored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | popular |
Synonyms: |
advantaged, best-liked, blessed, chosen, elite, fair-haired, lucky, pet*, preferred, privileged, recommended, selected, singled out, sweetheart, well-liked |
Antonyms: |
disfavored, unpopular |
| Main Entry: | fluky |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | chance |
Synonyms: |
accidental, casual, chancy, coincidental, contingent, fortuitous, incalculable, incidental, lucky, odd, uncertain, variable |
Antonyms: |
certain, designed, planned, sure |
| 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 |
Antonyms: |
adverse, sad, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, upset |