Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Admirably suited; apt: a felicitous comparison.
- adj. Exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style: a felicitous writer.
- adj. Marked by happiness or good fortune: a felicitous life.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Characterized by or conferring happiness or pleasure; highly pleasing.
- Well-chosen; appropriate: as, a felicitous manner; a felicitous situation; afelicitous reply.
- Synonyms Fortunate, etc. (see happy); apt, pertinent, opportune, well-put.
Wiktionary
- adj. fitting; happening at the right time.
- adj. Working out well.
- adj. linguistics, of a sentence or utterance Semantically and pragmatically coherent, fitting in the context.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skillful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style
- adj. marked by good fortune
Etymologies
- From Latin felicitās ("luck"), from Latin felix ("lucky"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Instead, he rendered felicitas as "felicitee" which was already available, and he coined a felicitous new word for beatitudo: "wellfulness.”
The Huffington Post: Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness
“In these passages not only is the thought singularly pure and noble, and the expression felicitous, but the actual metre represents almost the high-water mark of the post-Vergilian hexameter.”
“The President of the British Empire Club of Providence, Rhode Island, Mr. Spencer Over, was the guest of the Club at this meeting and was introduced by President Mitchell in felicitous terms, the members applauding heartily as Mr. Over bowed his thanks.”
“ A performative that "works" is called felicitous and one that does not is called infelicitous.”
“I had to look up the word "felicitous", I'll add it to my flashcard program if I remember it!”
“We may be spared, hereafter, the infliction of numberless "felicitous" conjectures, on which the following is scarcely a parody.”
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876
“The book is hard to put down because of this kind of felicitous prose, but it is a long book and takes a long time to read.”
“One evening devoted to each play, discussing the human issues involved, examining and explaining the use of language and poetry and highlighting the most 'felicitous' passages would be of interest to many people, not the least those who were unable to appreciate all that when they were callow youngsters.”
“felicitous" fault, "trailing after it a line of golden associations;" 2dly, because the practice involves a dishonesty.”
“Prophecy and dyspepsia did not affect her as a felicitous admixture.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘felicitous’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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Iaan
dirigisme, dystopia, cacotopia, ex ante, veritable, indefatigable, curmudgeon, desultory, antediluvian, transmogrify, pendent, elongate and 269 more...
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501
Classic
mete, ire, bane, bilk, boor, elan, ado, toil, onus, aberration, abstruse, anomaly and 401 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abject, abjure, abscission, abscond, abstemious, abstinence, abysmal, accretion and 787 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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501
Classic
aberration, abstruse, anomaly, assiduous, august, banal, boisterous, dulcet, epitome, impudent, insolent, mellifluous and 401 more...
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Words build meanings from origins( et...
These come from gamma meditation ,I think.
discursive, exogenous, machinations, purportedly, sumptuous, congruity, cantankerous, incongruous, festoon, hessian, ratiocinative, stratigraphic and 2053 more...
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January 2012
bloviate, pastiche, apparat, facile, paroxysm, pique, bedfellow, pedigree, tutelage, protege, protégé, retroactive and 196 more...
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common/uncommon GRE
Combination some common, some uncommon preparation of GRE words.
thwart, schmooze, siren, ebullient, eclectic, efficacy, adorn, felicitous, grandiloquent, eloquence, epitomize, vilify and 10 more...
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man gre
abase, abeyance, abreast, abscission, abscond, abyss, accede, accretion, acerbic, acidulous, acumen, adulterate and 483 more...
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GRE
GRE words from Princeton Review guide, ETS GRE Book from 2010 (for revised test), New Yorker/NY Times articles.
sycophant, obsequious, volubility, equanimity, enervate, effrontery, impertinent, platitude, impudence, quiescent, propitiate, equivocate and 124 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1901 more...
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Advanced Words: Part II
facetious, felicitous, grandiloquent, germane, repatriate, exigency, exculpate, etheral, fatuous, heterogeneous, hiatus, idiosyncrasy and 118 more...
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