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What is the adjective for fortuitous?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs fortune and fortunize which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

fortunate
  1. Happening by good luck or favorable chance.
  2. Bringing unforeseen positives
  3. Presaging happiness.
  4. Auspicious.
  5. Lucky, favored by fortune.
  6. Synonyms:
      7. fortuitous, providential, auspicious, favorable, favourable, advantageous, felicitous, promising, timely, profitable, propitious, convenient, helpful, opportune, beneficial, welcome, bright, encouraging, expedient, favored, favoured, fruitful, gainful, golden, happy, rewarding, useful, valuable, jammy, rosy, seasonable, heaven-sent, well-off, born with a silver spoon in your mouth, lucky, good, prosperous, benign, hopeful, serendipitous, suitable, fair, fitting, full of promise, apt, optimistic, right, well-timed, well timed, beneficent … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “Some schools will be in the fortunate position of being able to invite local craftspersons to talk to their pupils.”
      “It was a fortunate set of circumstances that led to the museum acquiring the Continental tank engine.”
      “She was so fortunate to have a wonderful, loving family to rely on.”
fortuitous
  1. Happening by chance; coincidental or accidental.
  2. Happening by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.
  3. (law) Happening independently of human will.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. chance, accidental, casual, unintentional, incidental, fluky, unplanned, unintended, inadvertent, random, unpremeditated, coincidental, unexpected, unwitting, unforeseen, serendipitous, flukey, unanticipated, lucky, haphazard, odd, unpredictable, contingent, arbitrary, fluke, unlooked-for, involuntary, unthinking, unmeant, adventitious, unconscious, undesigned, undevised, aleatory, unforeseeable, unthought, extemporaneous, spontaneous, erratic, aimless, occurring by chance, uncalculated, unpredicted, purposeless, out of the blue, occurring by accident, uncertain, subconscious, circumstantial, jammy … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “After a fortuitous encounter with a New York agent, he learned that eight major publishers were interested in that single chapter becoming a book.”
      “Ted's credit card debt is paid off by a fortuitous win at the pokies.”
      “I never thought I would need it, but now it seems it was a fortuitous decision.”
fortuneless
  1. Destitute of a fortune or portion; without money.
  2. (archaic) Unlucky, unfortunate.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. poor, bankrupt, broke, moneyless, penniless, necessitous, beggarly, penurious, impecunious, indigent, needy, needful, destitute, underprivileged, deprived, bust, insolvent, strapped, skint, unprosperous, famished, threadbare, pauperized, beggared, as poor as a church mouse, badly off, bad off, behind eight ball, cleaned out, craptastic, dirt poor, dirt-poor, down and out, down-and-out, down at heel, empty-handed, flat broke, hard up, impoverished, in debt, in need, in penury, in reduced circumstances, in straitened circumstances, in the red, in want, low-income, low-paid, on one's beam-ends, on one's uppers … more
unfortunate
  1. not favored by fortune
  2. marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune
  3. Synonyms:
      4. unlucky, hapless, luckless, unhappy, poor, wretched, cursed, forlorn, miserable, doomed, hopeless, jinxed, pitiful, broken, desolate, desperate, destitute, forsaken, unprosperous, pathetic, pitiable, ruined, stricken, abject, afflicted, pained, shattered, snakebitten, troubled, unsuccessful, woeful, awkward, burdened, snakebit, worthless, ill-fated, hard luck, ill-starred, star-crossed, out of luck, ill-omened, sad sack, in a bad way, blighted, inauspicious, unpropitious, disastrous, fateful, condemned, misfortunate … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “But, on the whole, I've been a saint to those poor, unfortunate souls.”
      “An unfortunate chain of events would destroy the nation's economy.”
      “He made an unfortunate remark that was considered by many to be highly insensitive given the occasion.”
unfortunant
  1. Misconstruction of unfortunate.
fortuituous
  1. Alternative form of fortuitous
fortuit
  1. (obsolete) Fortuitous.
unfortunatest
  1. superlative form of unfortunate: most unfortunate
fortunatest
  1. superlative form of fortunate: most fortunate
fortuned
  1. simple past tense and past participle of fortune
fortuning
  1. present participle of fortune
fortunized
  1. simple past tense and past participle of fortunize
fortunizing
  1. present participle of fortunize
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