Fortunate vs Seasonable - What's the difference?
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Coming by good luck or favorable chance.
Bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain.
Presaging happiness.
Auspicious.
Receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts.
Lucky, favored by fortune.
Opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.
Appropriate to the current season of the year.
*1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
*:It was a wild, cold, seasonable night of March, with a pale moon, lying on her back as though the wind had tilted her, and flying wrack of the most diaphanous and lawny texture.
(obsolete) Ephemeral; lasting for just one season.
(obsolete) In season (said of game when it is legal to be hunted and killed).
(obsolete) Well-seasoned; matured (e.g. timber).
Fortunate is a related term of seasonable.
As adjectives the difference between fortunate and seasonable
is that fortunate is coming by good luck or favorable chance while seasonable is opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.fortunate
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Adjective
(en adjective)- a fortunate event
- a fortunate concurrence of circumstances
- a fortunate investment
Synonyms
* luckyAntonyms
* unlucky * unfortunateDerived terms
* unfortunately * fortunatelySee also
* unluckily * luckily (Webster 1913) ----seasonable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- Thomas Salusbury (1662):' ''Nor is it '''seasonable to have to do with Hercules, whil'st he is enraged, and amongst the Furies.
- The temperature outside was quite seaonable , neither warmer nor colder than I had expected.