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Fortunate vs Providential - What's the difference?

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Providential is a synonym of fortunate.



As adjectives the difference between fortunate and providential

is that fortunate is coming by good luck or favorable chance while providential is pertaining to divine providence.

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) ----

    providential

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to divine providence.
  • * 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 88:
    • The same belief underlay the providential view of history, in which the rise and fall of nations appeared as the expression of God's unsearchable purposes.
  • Fortunate, as if occurring through the intervention of Providence; lucky.

    • Synonyms

    * fortunate, serendipitous

    Related terms

    * providence * providentially