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词汇 fortuitous
释义 fortuitous
adjective
 formaluk /fɔːˈtʃuː.ɪ.təs/ us /fɔːrˈtuː.ə.t̬əs/
(of something that is to your advantage) not planned, happening by chance: (有利的事)偶然发生的,碰巧的
The timing of the meeting is certainly fortuitous.这次会议的时机真是太巧了。
The collapse of its rivals was a fortuitous opportunity for the company.竞争对手的倒闭给这家公司带来了意外的机会。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

happening by chance with no cause or reason
randomIt was a random encounter between two long-lost friends.
chanceA chance meeting brought them back together.
arbitraryIt seems like the decision to cancel such a successful TV programme was completely arbitrary.
haphazardHer cabinets were stuffed with a haphazard jumble of books, clothes, tins of soup, and papers.
coincidentalAny similarity between the characters in this book and real people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
inadvertentA good editor will catch and correct all inadvertent typos in a text.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Chance and randomness
accident
accident of birth
aleatory
arbitrarily
arbitrariness
coincidence
crapshoot
even money
fluke
fluky
luck
luck into something
more by accident than designidiom
more by luck than judgmentidiom
non-purposive
randomness
serendipitous
serendipitously
sortition
stumble into something

Related words


fortuitously
fortuitousness

fortuitous | American Dictionary


fortuitous
adjective
us/fɔrˈtu·ɪ·t̬əs/
(esp. of something to your advantage) happening by chance:
We made a fortuitous escape.
The discovery of the files was fortuitous.

fortuitously


adverbus/fɔrˈtu·ɪ·t̬əs·li/
They had fortuitously been out of the house when the fire started.

Examples of fortuitous


fortuitous
Teacher intervention should most often arise through effective and direct questioning about the fortuitous discoveries in the pupils' previous performances.
Often, fortuitous matches across different cases are exploited.
The consensus achieved is, therefore, not an accident of compromise or a fortuitous coincidence but a genuine endorsement from all involved.
The chance these genetic variations will address needs within a changing environment is at best fortuitous coincidence.
The war-damaged argued that the undamaged had only preserved their assets by luck, given the fortuitous distribution of wartime and post-war losses.
Sarsens were perhaps deliberately selected because of natural markings upon them, or their fortuitous resemblance to artificial or natural forms.
Little attention is paid, however, to separating the possibility of adaptive host manipulation from incidental (if fortuitous) side-effects of infection.
Or is it a fortuitous effect of the hand?
And although the dialogue between mathematics and structuralism failed to be sustained, this fortuitous encounter was the seed of a lasting cultural connection.
The agreement between the experimental data and the structures may still be somewhat fortuitous.
Even a fortuitous constellation of a balance of power, an iteration of interaction, and a long shadow of the future cannot guarantee co-operation.
The main idea here is to contrast adaptations with fortuitous benefits.
But if the archduke's premature demise was fortuitous, it was not just any event that could trigger a reaction that ended in war.
Finally, although an effect may be a fortuitous effect of one adaptation, it may be a function or an adaptive effect of a different adaptation.
One such fortuitous situation is on the terrace when sitting back-to-wall looking out to sea.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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