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Fortunate vs Seasonable - What's the difference?

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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

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) ----

    seasonable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Opportune; occurring at an appropriate or suitable time.
  • Thomas Salusbury (1662):' ''Nor is it '''seasonable to have to do with Hercules, whil'st he is enraged, and amongst the Furies.
  • Appropriate to the current season of the year.
  • The temperature outside was quite seaonable , neither warmer nor colder than I had expected.
  • *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).
  • Antonyms

    * unseasonable

    Derived terms

    * seasonableness

    References

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