Fortuitous
Pronounced:
<for-two-ah-tis>
Lucky. Lucky meeting.
My use:
It was a fortuitous day when we've met. I was lucky to meet someone like you.
It was a fortuitous day when we've met. I was lucky to meet someone like you.
Literary use:
It was from causes seemingly fortuitous . . . that all the mighty effects of the Reformation flowed.
--Robertson.
So as to throw a glancing and fortuitous light upon the whole
--Hazlitt.
It was from causes seemingly fortuitous . . . that all the mighty effects of the Reformation flowed.
--Robertson.
So as to throw a glancing and fortuitous light upon the whole
--Hazlitt.
Memory trick:
Fortuitous
Fortu (reminds of) = fortune
it (reminds of) = it
o (reminds of) = oh
us (reminds of) = us
fortune - it - oh - us
it (reminds of) = it
o (reminds of) = oh
us (reminds of) = us
fortune - it - oh - us
Listen: Fortuitous
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