fortuitous

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  1. adjective Happening by accident or chance. See Synonyms at accidental.
  2. adjective Usage Problem Happening by a fortunate accident or chance.
  3. adjective Usage Problem Lucky or fortunate.
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  • Now certainly courage is quite compatible with prudent calculation, but still they are things of quite a different kind, essentially different qualities of the mind; on the other hand, daring reliance on good fortune, boldness, rashness, are only expressions of courage, and all these propensities of the mind look for the fortuitous (or accidental), because it is their element. —  Clausewitz, ON WAR - Book I-Chapter 1
  • Perhaps equally fortuitous was the decision to keep Margulies around when the original plan had been to kill off her Nurse Hathaway in the series pilot.
  • Woodstock is a dream ... it was a spontaneous happening at a special time in human social evolution, in other words, a fortuitous quirk of fate, not likely to happen again. —  The Ukiah Daily Journal Forum
  • How fortuitous, then, that according to IGN, Sony has a forthcoming firmware update which will enable the PSP with direct access to downloadable content McCain Camp's Mock Shock - What is fascinating to us about this whole Sarah Palin situation is not the media and the Obama camp's reaction to her nomination. —  Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now
  • I found that fortuitous (always wanted to use "fortuitous" in a blog post), as one of the early influences on our staff development was —  The Fischbowl
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  1. Latin fortuītus; see bher-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French fortuit = Spanish Portuguese Italian fortuito, from Latin fortuitus, casual, accidental, from for(t-)s, chance (cf. ablative forte, by chance): see fortune.
 

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