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Felicitous vs Wealful - What's the difference?

felicitous | wealful |

As adjectives the difference between felicitous and wealful

is that felicitous is fitting; happening at the right time while wealful is (dialectal|or|obsolete) successful; prosperous.

felicitous

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • fitting; happening at the right time.
  • Working out well.
  • (linguistics, of a sentence or utterance) Semantically and pragmatically coherent, fitting in the context.
    • This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous .

    Synonyms

    * (happening at the right time) appropriate, opportune, apt * (working out well) fortunate, opportune

    Antonyms

    * unfelicitous, grammatical/ungrammatical

    Related terms

    * felicity

    Derived terms

    * felicitously * felicitousness * unfelicitous

    wealful

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (l) (obsolete) * (l) (Scottish)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Successful; prosperous.
  • (dialectal, or, obsolete) Happy; joyful; felicitous.

    • Derived terms

    * (l)