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What does fortuitous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word fortuitous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Happening by chance; coincidental or accidental.
  2. Happening by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.
  3. (law) Happening independently of human will.
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Much of the success of the text is by design, other aspects are by fortuitous accident.
Make no mistake this was a hard won if rather fortuitous victory but like recent games it needn't have been so.
In our analysis, we took advantage of these fortuitous differences by incorporating weather as a categorical factor.
So on a meander along the city footpaths, it was fortuitous that we came across this venue, just when a lunch break was called for.
Violence itself becomes a means of reassurance, a fortuitous opportunity through which the strength of re-enforced steel is tested.
He laughed to himself as he walked, thinking how lucky he'd been that his prank had had such fortuitous results.

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