flukey
1
8.7
- adjective
- /ˈfluːki/
- Informal
:
fortuito
- It's flukey.
Examples
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Even the national soccer team, after a 10-year absence from a major tournament, was scored upon with a flukey header less than three minutes into its Euro 2012 competition and left the tournament at the bottom of its group without a victory.
Blog text (22) -
Finding a $20 bill on the ground was a flukey stroke of luck for her.
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"A real flukey kind of thing."
Fiction book (1996) -
It was nothing more than a flukey goal.
Blog text (32) -
That goal, shot off the glass before rebounding in front of Rawlings, might have been flukey, but the five that followed were not, bringing the Friars to a 6-2 win over the Huskies.
Blog text (31) -
The team won the game with a flukey goal that surprised everyone.
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His success in the contest was flukey, as he had never even practiced before.
Synonyms
527
3.4
Happening without a plan and by chance
26
8.1
Not certain or reliable
3
6.9
Not certain and likely to be risky
3
6.9
Sometimes works well and sometimes fails depending on luck
1
8.1
Happening by luck rather than by planning
Antonyms
How Intentional
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Flukey comes from the word fluke, which means an unexpected bit of 'good luck'. A helpful way to remember it is that it sounds like 'lucky', so something flukey happens by 'chance' rather than by skill.