unfortunate

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

having good things happen by chance
luckyTwo lucky winners will be treated to an all-expenses paid trip to the Bahamas!
fortunateIt was fortunate that he wasn't injured in the accident.
it's a good thingIt's a good thing we bought travel insurance for our trip since it was cancelled.
it's a good jobUKIt's a good job they didn't go camping this weekend - the weather's been awful.
luck outUSThe Giants really lucked out in last night's game.
Let us pray for those who are not so fortunate as ourselves - the sick, the old and the needy.让我们为那些比我们不幸的病弱者、老人和穷人祈祷吧。
I consider myself fortunate to have had such a good education.
She was fortunate to escape with only minor injuries.
We certainly were fortunate to get a fine day for the fete, considering how wet it's been lately.
"My husband arrived home just at that moment, which scared the intruder away." "Gosh, that was fortunate."

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Good luck and bad luck
align
bad/hard/tough luck!idiom
be bad luck on someoneidiom
be down on your luckidiom
be in/out of luckidiom
blessing
fortune smiles on someoneidiom
get the short end of the stickidiom
godsend
grace
hapless
mercifully
mercy
miracle
misadventure
mischance
streak
voodoo
with any luckidiom
your luck's in!idiom

fortunate | American Dictionary

fortunate
adjective
us/ˈfɔr·tʃə·nət/
receiving or bringing a good thing that was uncertain or unexpected:
a fortunate choice
[ + to infinitive ]You’re fortunate to have found such a pleasant house.
[ + that clause ]It was fortunate that you left in time.

fortunately

adverb[ not gradable ]us/ˈfɔr·tʃə·nət·li/
Fortunately we were already home when it started to snow.

Examples of fortunate

fortunate
Residents who did not illuminate their houses or accede to other crowd demands were fortunate if broken glass was the only damage they suffered.
It is hard to see why a theory that purports to be egalitarian takes such particular account of the preferences of the more fortunate.
Finally, our group is fortunate to have members with strong interests in electronic music and art, or simply new media.
Fortunate is he who, with a case so desperate as mine, finds a judge so merciful.
Sometimes, researchers are fortunate enough to be able to rely upon, or adapt, previously proven methods.
The discovery of diamonds shortly after the country's independence provided a fortunate economic windfall for the country.
Thus, we are fortunate to have data on psychological distress covering the period 1981 to 2000 for two cohorts.
For actuaries, these fortunate social circumstances applied only in the period roughly stretching between 1820 and 1845.
Those fortunate enough to obtain waged employment in the late-colonial and early-independence years did indeed experience dramatic improvements.
Centenarians prove the compression of morbidity hypothesis, but what about the rest of us who are genetically less fortunate?
At the same time he recognised that people needed nurturing, which included support following bereavement, as he had been fortunate to receive from his daughter.
We are not so fortunate with the composer of the music.
It is surprising and fortunate that an explicit, analytical solution is possible, principally because m is extremely large.
The fixed-point iteration method turns out to be stable (given the initial condition), a fortunate property of these models.
I was fortunate in that these results could be compared with other measures of food use on one of the sites.
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