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What does felicitous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Fitting; happening at the right time.
  2. Working out well.
  3. (linguistics) Semantically and pragmatically coherent, fitting in the context.
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Conceptually that was quite accurate, even if it was not the most felicitous choice of words.
The expectations raised by the prefatory dedications to this book are fully realised in both its felicitous prose and subtle readings.
And yet it is full of couch potatoes rolling doobie after doobie and overly felicitous teeth-grinding cokeheads trying frantically to get a word in edgewise.
For him language is musical, felicitous, comical, flippant, suggestive, buoyant weaponry and adumbrative of mysteries beyond us.
However, grimly amusing as this spectacle is, the political reality behind these appointments may be less felicitous.
They rely heavily on felicitous coincidence for the plots, and the character development is cartoonish.

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