Lucrative vs Fortunate - What's the difference?
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Producing a surplus; profitable.
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, title= 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.
Lucrative is a related term of fortunate.
As adjectives the difference between lucrative and fortunate
is that lucrative is producing a surplus; profitable while fortunate is coming by good luck or favorable chance.lucrative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
Usage notes
* Said of profession, occupation, position, office, business, deal, etc.Antonyms
* non-lucrativeDerived terms
* lucrativenessExternal links
* *Anagrams
* ----fortunate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- a fortunate event
- a fortunate concurrence of circumstances
- a fortunate investment