Enjoy vs Lucky - What's the difference?
enjoy | lucky |
To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something
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, title= To have the use or benefit of something.
* Bible, Numbers xxxvi. 8
* 1988 , Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays
To have sexual intercourse with.
Favoured by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune. Said of persons.
Producing, or resulting in, good chance, or unexpectedly; favorable; auspicious; fortunate.
As a verb enjoy
is to receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.As an adjective lucky is
favoured by luck; fortunate; meeting with good success or good fortune said of persons.enjoy
English
Verb
(en verb)Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
- that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
- This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
- (Milton)
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . SeeDerived terms
* enjoyable * enjoyment * to enjoy oneselflucky
English
Adjective
(er)- a lucky adventurer
- The downed pilot is very lucky to be alive.
- a lucky mistake
- a lucky cast
- a lucky hour