felicitous
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7.6
- adjective
- /fəˈlɪsɪtəs/
- Formal
:
afortunado
- The timing for the establishment of this new department proved felicitous.
Examples
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Joseph's term as king of Spain was not as felicitous.
Academic text (2010) -
Winning the award was a felicitous moment for the whole team.
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The repair of conflicts and the negation of change are necessary for the maintenance or restoration of a felicitous social life.
Academic text (2014) -
A felicitous resolution indeed, for Alfaro and for transculturation.
Academic text (2004) -
I am truly excited and am eagerly anticipating the felicitous outcome and the triumph of both truth and justice.
Blog text (10) -
The term "Post-West" is a felicitous one for our purposes, since it implies a combination of dependency and departure.
Academic text (1998) -
Since no existing Spanish term corresponded to such a negative concept of sleeping, Muslims, for whom the need for one was obvious, coined the felicitous new word.
Academic text (1995) -
If you accept the analogy of language to landscape and form to architecture, this type of clarity is a felicitous harmony between a feature of the topography and a feature of the design.
Academic text (2011) -
Twenty-five years ago, I was privileged to lead a talented faculty group, which, due to a felicitous institutional conjuncture, was able to design and implement Concordia University's Liberal Arts College, an alternative undergraduate core-text liberal arts curriculum.
Academic text (2002) -
The weather was felicitous for our outdoor picnic, making it a perfect day.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Having good things happen by chance
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1.0
Bringing a good or lucky result
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2.0
Likely to bring a good result
15
7.3
Happening by chance in a lucky or helpful way
Antonyms
How Fortunate
Surface Forms
Morphology
felicitous = felicity (semi-transparent) = felicit + ous
The adjective is formed with the productive suffix '-ous' from a felic- root related to 'felicity', but the stem 'felicit-' is not a standalone English word and the relation is not immediately obvious to average learners.
Etymology
Felicitous comes from the Latin root felix, which means 'happy' or 'lucky', and it is related to the English word felicity. So a felicitous event is one that brings happiness or good fortune.