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Joyful vs Fortunate - What's the difference?

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Joyful is a related term of fortunate.


As adjectives the difference between joyful and fortunate

is that joyful is feeling or causing joy while fortunate is coming by good luck or favorable chance.

joyful

English

Alternative forms

* joyfull

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Feeling or causing joy.
    • Related terms
    * joyfully (adverb) * joyfulness (noun)

    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) ----