fortuitous
About 1.10 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Happening by fortune or chance; accidental, coincidental.
- adjective Happening by good fortune or success; fortunate, lucky.
- adjective Happening independently of human control; uncontrollable.
Similar words
fortunate uncaused unintended causeless casual accidental incidental occasional adventitious causal
Often followed by
circumstances and that circumstance event concourse events or combination
Word family
fortuitously fortuitousness fortuitousnesses
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