lucky
∞
1.0
- adjective
- /ˈlʌki/
:
afortunado
- Your kids are very lucky to have you.
- lucky enough
- lucky and happy
- feel lucky
Yeah, we might get lucky, we might get lucky.
- Yeah, we might get lucky, we might get lucky.
- And maybe we're just lucky, but we've made that work.
- So he got really lucky on that one.
- He said you by the luckiest man I've ever met.
- You know, like how lucky to just be alive today.
- And I felt so lucky to be able to do that.
- And some of them have been very lucky and had fabulous help.
- I think I was just born lucky and and raised lucky, right?
- I think of myself as someone lucky to be able to do both.
- OK, Meyer, he said you're lucky they lowered the standards.
- Yeah, well, at least we're lucky enough to not know it, I guess.
- But at that point I was lucky because I had friends.
Examples
-
She felt lucky to find a $20 bill on the sidewalk.
-
You were lucky to get out of there.
-
But of course, I might not be so lucky, right?
-
So he got really lucky on that one.
-
And I felt so lucky to be able to do that.
-
I was one of the lucky ones.
-
My firm, for example, was lucky enough to be one of the investors in Apple.
Academic text (1993) -
His friends told him he was lucky to find a furnished place on such short notice.
Fiction book (1990) -
And we've been really lucky in this in this city.
-
It's my lucky day.
Synonyms
348
1.8
A very successful or lucky time in a person's life
296
1.8
Being lucky in a situation
36
1.6
Having something good happen by chance
15
7.3
Happening by chance in a lucky or helpful way
10
7.4
Happening by chance and bringing good results
1
7.6
Bringing good luck and success
1
8.3
Very lucky in a way that seems unfair or surprising
1
9.8
Having good luck when things happen by chance
1
7.1
Someone who often has good things happen by chance
Feeling lucky and happy about something
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
A nickname for the American pilot Charles Lindbergh after his 1927 solo flight across the Atlantic
How Lucky
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word lucky comes from luck, an old word for 'chance' or 'good fortune', plus the ending -y that makes it an adjective. So to be lucky is to have good chance or to get a good result by chance.