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Fortunate vs Licky - What's the difference?

fortunate | licky |

As adjectives the difference between fortunate and licky

is that fortunate is coming by good luck or favorable chance while licky is prone to licking.

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) ----

    licky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Prone to licking.
  • * 1981 , Don Bannister, Long day at Shiloh
    • ...but she gives you the feeling all the time that she's bony that's it bony and if she does fancy it she sure as hell don't show it get a lickier kiss from Granny Coombs than I do offen her all that Methodis' stuff I guess
  • * 2003 , Michael Wordsmiff, James Baggit and the Storyteller's Ring - Page 13
  • *:He was a proper dog; a great, woolly, lolloping beast with huge paddy paws, a waggy tail and a very licky tongue.
  • * 2007 , Augusten Burroughs, Possible Side Effects : True Stories - Page 25
  • *:As soon as the dog was safely enclosed within the area of our legs, it became happy and licky . He ran to one then the other. Then he sat on the floor and watched us watching him.

    • See also

    * licky-licky