Synonyms for fortunate
ˈfɔr tʃə nɪtfor·tu·nate

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1. fortunateadjective

   Synonyms:
   lucky

   Antonyms:
   unlucky, unfortunate

2. fortunateadjective

   Coming by good luck or favorable chance.

   Synonyms:
   lucky

   Antonyms:
   unlucky, unfortunate

3. fortunateadjective

   Bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain.

   Synonyms:
   lucky

   Antonyms:
   unfortunate, unlucky

4. fortunateadjective

   Presaging happiness.

   Synonyms:
   lucky

   Antonyms:
   unlucky, unfortunate

5. fortunateadjective

   Auspicious.

   Synonyms:
   lucky

   Antonyms:
   unfortunate, unlucky

6. fortunateadjective

   Receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts.

   Synonyms:
   lucky

   Antonyms:
   unlucky, unfortunate

7. fortunateadjective

   Lucky, favored by fortune.

   Synonyms:
   lucky

   Antonyms:
   unlucky, unfortunate

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1. fortunate

   A man is successful in any case if he achieves or gains what he seeks; he is known as a successful man if he has achieved or gained worthy objects of endeavor; he is fortunate or lucky if advantages have come to him without or beyond his direct planning or achieving. Lucky is the more common and colloquial, fortunate the more elegant word; fortunate is more naturally applied to the graver matters, as we speak of the fortunate, rather than the lucky, issue of a great battle; lucky more strongly emphasizes the element of chance, as when we speak of a lucky hit, a lucky guess, or of one as "born under a lucky star." Favored is used in a religious sense, implying that one is the object of divine favor. Happy, in this connection, signifies possessed of the means of happiness. One is said to be happy or prosperous whether his prosperity be the result of fortune or of achievement; prospered rather denotes the action of a superintending Providence.

   Synonyms:
   favored, happy, lucky, prospered, prosperous, successful

   Antonyms:
   broken, crushed, fallen, ill-starred, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, woful, wretched

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1. fortunate

   Synonyms:
   lucky, propitious, happy, felicitous, prosperous, auspicious, providential, successful

   Antonyms:
   unlucky, unfortunate, unhappy, infelicitous

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1. fortunateadjective

   having unexpected good fortune

   "other, less fortunate, children died"; "a fortunate choice"

   Synonyms:
   golden, rosy

   Antonyms:
   miserable, roofless, ill-fated, ill-starred, fatal, unhappy, pathetic, homeless, cursed, calamitous, unlucky, inauspicious, pitiable, regrettable, hapless, too bad, poor, pitiful, unfortunate, black, doomed, dispossessed, abject, disastrous, wretched, fateful, piteous, infelicitous, curst, ill-omened, downtrodden, misfortunate

2. fortunate, goldenadjective

   supremely favored

   "golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust"

   Synonyms:
   gilded, rosy, lucky, prosperous, aureate, golden, gold, gilt, halcyon, favourable, favorable

   Antonyms:
   unhappy, ill-fated, unfortunate, curst, too bad, unlucky, roofless, hapless, cursed, misfortunate, piteous, regrettable, infelicitous, wretched, downtrodden, pathetic, abject, poor, pitiable, disastrous, fatal, ill-omened, homeless, inauspicious, black, calamitous, doomed, dispossessed, pitiful, fateful, miserable, ill-starred

3. fortunate, rosyadjective

   presaging good fortune

   "she made a fortunate decision to go to medical school"; "rosy predictions"

   Synonyms:
   rose-cheeked, rosy, flushed, rosy-cheeked, golden, blushful, rose-colored

   Antonyms:
   inauspicious, homeless, too bad, regrettable, ill-omened, roofless, miserable, doomed, unfortunate, curst, poor, hapless, black, fateful, infelicitous, fatal, disastrous, dispossessed, wretched, unhappy, pitiful, cursed, misfortunate, piteous, pitiable, abject, ill-fated, calamitous, unlucky, pathetic, downtrodden, ill-starred

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1. fortunateadjective

   Synonyms:
   LUCKY, successful, prosperous, favored, happy

2. fortunateadjective

   Synonyms:
   propitious, auspicious, favorable

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1. fortunateadjective

   Synonyms:
   lucky, favored, auspicious, favorable

   Antonyms:
   unfortunate

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1. List of paraphrases for "fortunate":

   lucky, happy, privileged, chance, iucky, fortunately, pleased, wealthy

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1. Bruce Montgomery:

   I can only do it because Project H.O.O.D. inspires me. It inspires anybody, i'm fortunate to come from four generations of entrepreneurs. First in Arkansas, my great-grandparents and grandparents and then my parents here in Chicago. And so, I want to continue that, and I want my grandchildren, my grandsons—I got three grandsons, and I want them to be a part of this experience and know that we can lead the way forward.

2. Dan Shalloway:

   We’ve been open only six weeks and have been very fortunate that we have yet to turn anybody away.

3. Richard Shelby:

   I am grateful to the people of Alabama who have put their trust in me for more than forty years. I have been fortunate to serve in the U.S. Senate longer than any other Alabamian.

4. Nathan Phelps:

   I still feel that call today, i decided to continue serving because I have pride in what I do as a soldier, and I am fortunate to be able to do what I do.

5. Skip Henderson:

   Our prayers are with all of these young people that are injured and certainly all of their families, because even though we are so fortunate and grateful to God that we didn’t have anybody lose their life, it changed a lot of lives that night of those kids and the people charged with taking care of them.