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fortunate Adjective 1. having good luck 2. occurring by good luck fortunately adv
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fortunate adjective 1. lucky, happy, favoured, bright, golden, rosy, on a roll, jammy Brit. (slang) in luck, having a charmed life, born with a silver spoon in your mouth << OPPOSITE unfortunate adjective 2. providential, auspicious, fortuitous, felicitous, timely, promising, encouraging, helpful, profitable, convenient, favourable, advantageous, expedient, opportune, propitious Translations How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| But, all the same, the reader will admit that it must be lonely for me, and not another sister left to take pity on me, all somewhere happily settled down in the Fortunate Isles. Comrades of the thunder and companions of death, I cannot but regard it as singularly fortunate that we who by conviction and sympathy are designated by nature as the champions of that fairest of her products, the white metal, should also, by a happy chance, be engaged mostly in the business of mining it. By a fortunate coincidence, Lady Janet's ball takes place in a fortnight. |
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