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fortunate | fortunize |

As an adjective fortunate

is coming by good luck or favorable chance.

As a verb fortunize is

(rare|obsolete|transitive) to make fortunate or wealthy.

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) ----

    fortunize

    English

    Verb

    (fortuniz)
  • (rare, obsolete, transitive) To make fortunate or wealthy.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , VI.9:
    • For wisedome is most riches: fooles therefore / They are which fortunes doe by vowes devize, / Sith each unto himselfe his life may fortunize .
  • * 1871 , Mark Hardcastle, ‘Hamilton Brothers’, The Argosy , vol. 12, p. 64:
    • I am going out to fortunize' my own life; and you are staying at home to ' fortunize yours.