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Word entry · 10 letters

fortuitous

Best crossword clue

"Happening by lucky chance"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /fɔːˈtjuː.ɪ.təs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted fioorsttuuStarts with FEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. occurring by happy chance

Word origin

From Latin fortuītus.

Used in a sentence

  • […] and during the ten days of their stay at Hartfield it was not to be expected—she did not herself expect—that any thing beyond occasional, fortuitous assistance could be afforded by her to the lovers.
  • Was it love, she wondered, or a mere fortuitous combination of happy thoughts and sensations?
  • And then he met John Dowsett, the great John Dowsett. The whole thing was fortuitous. This cannot be doubted.

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