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Flourishing vs Fortunate - What's the difference?

flourishing | fortunate | Related terms |

As a verb flourishing

is present participle of lang=en.

As a noun flourishing

is the action of the verb {{term|flourish}}; flowering.

As an adjective fortunate is

coming by good luck or favorable chance.

flourishing

English

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The action of the verb (flourish); flowering

    • fortunate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Coming by good luck or favorable chance.
  • Bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain.
  • Presaging happiness.
  • Auspicious.
    • a fortunate event
    a fortunate concurrence of circumstances
    a fortunate investment
  • Receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts.
  • Lucky, favored by fortune.

    • Synonyms

    * lucky

    Antonyms

    * unlucky * unfortunate

    Derived terms

    * unfortunately * fortunately

    See also

    * unluckily * luckily (Webster 1913) ----