Definitions
Wiktionary
- adj. By serendipity; by unexpected good fortune.
- adj. Good, beneficial, favorable, etc..
WordNet 3.0
- adj. lucky in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries
Examples
“I use the term serendipitous as it applies to my good fortune.”
“There is nothing like the loquacious mayhem of a summer picnic with close friends to bring out the very best in serendipitous, anarchic explorations of wine, food and opinions.”
“Catching the killer or finding out his identity has been frequently termed serendipitous: some streak of luck suddenly entered the investigations.”
“That is a coincidence, but I wouldnt exactly call it serendipitous.”
“Full disclosure dictates that I reveal that I too was contacted by them last year; however in a moment of what I can only describe as serendipitous procrastination or distraction-whichever-I let the email sit there for a good while.”
“But the timing is "serendipitous," spokeswoman Alisa Martinez says.”
“It's just that kind of serendipitous find where you're looking for one book and the title of the book next to it catches your eye and you pick it up and you say, oh, this is just what I was looking for my whole life.”
“He has illuminated a usefull pathway of how we can speak of the Divine as being impersonal but still creative and being 'serendipitous' rather than purposefull .”
“There is little effort at cohesion -- rather, a kind of serendipitous plot that goes every which way and a series of tentative, aborted romances.”
The Year of Pleasures: Summary and book reviews of The Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg.
“You push buttons and things fall out, but it's not that same kind of serendipitous experience.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘serendipitous’.
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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 2046 more...
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cicatrix
scar tissue
minatory, naira, Cluniac, embracive, prolix, hierophant, timorous, adduce, veracious, dysphoric, sang-froid, vitiate and 503 more...
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happenstance
happenstance
newton, oops, klutz, chance meeting, fluke, fortuity, happenchance, eureka, happenstance, ka, kismet, serendipitous and 11 more...
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Cool sounding words
Stuff that either rolls off the tongue really well or sounds interesting.
suppurate, inveterate, douche, Constantinople, zyzygy, polyglot, serendipitous, vivisection, solypsis, conflagration, instupituous, fecundity and 52 more...
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The Pits
armpit, pit, pits, cockpit, pity, pithy, pit bull terrier, pit boss, pit stop, pitcher, fire pit, peach pit and 76 more...
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Favorite Words
Fun words that are interesting and arresting.
Ort, unctuous, panoply, defenestrate, palpable, ubiquitous, flagellate, serendipitous, epiphanic, constructivist, amuse bouche, sobriquet and 30 more...
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My favorite sounds
My favorite words to say.
ubiquitous, nightingale, silhouette, crevice, gloom, acquiesce, maniacal, plethora, serendipitous, oceanic, dollop
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My Favorite Words
As the title suggests...
erudite, draconian, ribald, caveat, onerous, drivel, defenestration, serendipitous, cogent, fastidious, ether, iridescent and 2 more...
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gre2
aberrant, aberration, aboveboard, abrasive, abstemious, acme, admonish, affable, affluent, alacrity, allegory, alleviate and 1824 more...
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Big Long Words
Words that give thee the power to dominate all others.
pnuemonoultramicr..., antidisestablishm..., antidisestablishm..., encephalopathic, serendipitous, serendipitous, oxyphenbutazone, deshypothequiez, verisimilitude, subinfiniplastifu..., eckyeckyeckyeckyp..., hippopotomonstros... and 4 more...
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ambrosia, inamorata, gossamer, lily-white, hummingbird, roucoulement, poppy, daisy, calypso, lunula, lamb, dove and 1526 more...
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My GRE Vocab
moniker, sobriquet, prerogative, aberration, aberrant, nuance, notorious, infamous, content, refer, allude, renown and 109 more...
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Twitter favourites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favourite word" and adds it to this list.
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thunderfuck, incredible, merp, sara, flopparoo, smother, fugly, buer, plum, canny, nefelibata, cuntbucket and 1972 more... -
five syllables
ontogenesis, phylogenesis, concatenation, androgenesis, extra textual, inexorably, spagyrically, apophenia, iatrochemist, monocotyloid, morphological, parthenogenic and 941 more...
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MiaLuthien's list ♥
gambit, prehensile, coquetry, impunity, genuflect, ensconce, clavicle, delude, beget, castigate, life caching, convoluted and 478 more...
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Words I Should Use More Often
Words that I'll use to sound erudite.
fungible, aggrandizement, tete-a-tete, sententious, serendipitous, fortuitous, lugubrious, declivity, propitiatory, volubility, august, tenebrous and 214 more...
Tweets
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