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US
/ˈfɔɹtʃənət, ˈfɔɹtʃunət/
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[ UK /fˈɔːtʃənət/ ]
[ UK /fˈɔːtʃənət/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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presaging good fortune
she made a fortunate decision to go to medical school
rosy predictions -
supremely favored
golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust
fortunate son -
having unexpected good fortune
a fortunate choice
other, less fortunate, children died
How To Use fortunate In A Sentence
- He wrote and tcanslaited many fortunate connexion « Mr. Boweai other works, and among the rest being unable to pay the costs in-* wa»the author of one play, called curred by the suit in the Spiritual Biographia dramatica, or, A companion to the playhouse:
- Instead of asking the fortunate few, why doesn't Ted asked the gifted masses of state employees to do a little giveback? We're! Number! 5! (Jack Bog's Blog)
- It should be a baritone scoring game and the unfortunate should be in early disceptation for a top 3 pick. Xml's Blinklist.com
- Fortunately, seven unaired episodes will give fans something to really dive into.
- Fortunately, actual working scientists rarely bother with such niceties - so they proceed to search for Neptune, quarks and so on.
- I was haunted by the beauty of the landscape all about, of the natural ferneries then disappearing, and of the domed forest-trees on the slopes, and was fortunate in meeting a gentleman intent on preserving in art the beauties of his country. Sailing Alone Around the World
- The Holy Alliance was the joint labour of an unfortunate man who had suffered a terrible mental shock and who was trying to pacify his much-disturbed soul, and of an ambitious woman who after a wasted life had lost her beauty and her attraction and who satisfied her vanity and her desire for notoriety by assuming the rôle of self-appointed Messiah of a new and strange creed. The Story of Mankind
- Unfortunately she has to work and then has class after work which is a bit of a bummer.
- I still see Mr. Berman's portable shtender in the shul and I have to smile because I immediately see his warm gentle smile and think about how fortunate I was to have met your father.
- But, fortunately, there were cavities in the two teeth on either side of the gap -- one in the first molar and one in the palatine surface of the cuspid; might he not drill a socket in the remaining root and sockets in the molar and cuspid, and, partly by bridging, partly by crowning, fill in the gap? McTeague
