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Meaning of "fortuitously" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF FORTUITOUSLY

fortuitously  [fɔːˈtjuːɪtəslɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF FORTUITOUSLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Fortuitously is an adverb.
The adverb is an invariable part of the sentence that can change, explain or simplify a verb or another adverb.

WHAT DOES FORTUITOUSLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

fortuitously

Luck

The definition of Luck varies by philosophical, religious, mystical, or emotional context of the one interpreting it; according to the classic Noah Webster's dictionary, Luck is "a purposeless, unpredictable and uncontrollable force that shapes events favorably or unfavorably for an individual, group or cause". Yet the author Max Gunther defines it as "events that influence one's life and are seemingly beyond one's control". When thought of as a factor beyond one's control, without regard to one's will, intention, or desired result, there are at least two senses that people usually mean when they use the term, the prescriptive sense and the descriptive sense. In the prescriptive sense, luck is a supernatural and deterministic concept that there are forces which prescribe that certain events occur very much the way laws of physics will prescribe that certain events occur. It is the prescriptive sense that people mean when they say they "do not believe in luck". In the descriptive sense, people speak of luck after events which they find to be fortunate or unfortunate, and maybe improbable.

Definition of fortuitously in the English dictionary

The definition of fortuitously in the dictionary is in a fortuitous manner.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH FORTUITOUSLY


calamitously
kəˈlæmɪtəslɪ
circuitously
sɜːˈkjʊɪtəslɪ
covetously
ˈkʌvɪtəslɪ
duplicitously
djuːˈplɪsɪtəslɪ
felicitously
fəˈlɪsɪtəslɪ
gratuitously
ɡrəˈtjuːɪtəslɪ
infelicitously
ˌɪnfɪˈlɪsɪtəslɪ
iniquitously
ɪnˈɪkwɪtəslɪ
momentously
məʊˈmentəslɪ
necessitously
nɪˈsɛsɪtəslɪ
obviously
ˈɒbvɪəslɪ
portentously
pɔːˈtɛntəslɪ
precipitously
prɪˈsɪpɪtəslɪ
previously
ˈpriːvɪəslɪ
riotously
ˈraɪətəslɪ
routously
ˈraʊtəslɪ
serendipitously
ˌserənˈdɪpɪtəslɪ
seriously
ˈsɪərɪəslɪ
solicitously
səˈlɪsɪtəslɪ
ubiquitously
juːˈbɪkwətəslɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FORTUITOUSLY

fortresslike
fortuities
fortuitism
fortuitist
fortuitous
fortuitousness
fortuity
Fortuna
fortunate
fortunately
fortunateness
fortune
fortune cookie
fortune hunter
fortune-hunter
fortune-hunting
fortune-teller
fortune-telling
fortuneless
fortunize

WORDS THAT END LIKE FORTUITOUSLY

anonymously
cautiously
consciously
continuously
curiously
dangerously
deliciously
deviously
enormously
famously
generously
graciously
hilariously
marvellously
meticulously
outrageously
ridiculously
simultaneously
tremendously
unanimously
vigorously

Synonyms and antonyms of fortuitously in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «fortuitously» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FORTUITOUSLY

Find out the translation of fortuitously to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fortuitously from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fortuitously» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

偶然
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

fortuitamente
570 millions of speakers

English

fortuitously
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अनायास
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مصادفة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

случайно
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

fortuitamente
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

দৈবাৎ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

fortuitement
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Dengan bersungguh-sungguh
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

zufällig
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

偶然に
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

우연히
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kakehan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

ngẩu nhiên
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தற்செயலாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

योगायोगाने
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

tesadüfen
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

fortuitamente
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

przypadkowo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

випадково
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

accidental
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

συμπτωματικά
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

toevallig
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

slump
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fortuitously
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fortuitously

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FORTUITOUSLY»

The term «fortuitously» is regularly used and occupies the 65.555 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FORTUITOUSLY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «fortuitously» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «fortuitously» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fortuitously

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FORTUITOUSLY»

Discover the use of fortuitously in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fortuitously and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
How to Think about Meaning
According to (PQ), S uses (37) to mean that Jack fortuitously bumped into Jill, and that we are to pause over the word choice “fortuitously”. But it doesn't seem that ( 37) means that Jack fortuitously bumped into Jill. Thus there is an intuitive ...
Paul Saka, 2007
2
The Atomists, Leucippus and Democritus: Fragments : a Text ...
For many things come about and are so by chance and fortuitously, and people are not unaware that it is possible to refer everything that comes about to some cause, which is what the ancient theory that denies chance says, but yet everyone ...
‎2010
3
The Connected Discourses of the Buddha: A New Translation of ...
self and by another, or has it arisen fortuitously, being created neither by oneself nor by another?"194 "Friend Kotthita, aging-and-death is not created by oneself, nor is it created by another, nor is it created both by oneself and by another, nor ...
‎2000
4
International Handbook of White-Collar and Corporate Crime
At one level, the question whether Switzer cheated turns on nothing more than whether heviolated arule: If the disclose-or-abstainrule applies to information obtained fortuitously by outsiders, then he has cheated; if the rule does not apply in ...
Henry N. Pontell, Gilbert L. Geis, 2010
5
ISTFA 2012: Conference Proceedings from the 38th ...
An effectiveness greater than zero indicates the N-detect TDF metric is guaranteed to detect the failed chip (not fortuitously). The results of Figure 3 help test engineers select an optimal value of N by weighing the effectiveness against number ...
ASM International, EDFAS Organizing Committee, editors, 2012
6
Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
2 Modern examples of fortuitous wrongly used to mean 'fortunate' or 'fortunately coincidental' and of fortuitously in corresponding adverb senses are: E Ellen Orford in the poem is a middle-aged woman and it was fortuitous for me that! was  ...
Robert Allen, 2008
7
The Discourse on the All-embracing Net of Views: The ...
He speaks thus: 'The self and the world originate fortuitously. What is the reason? Because previously I did not exist, but now I am. Not having been, I sprang into being.' “This, bhikkhus, is the first case. 69. “In the second case, owing to what, ...
‎1992
8
The London, Edinburgh and Dublin Philosophical Magazine and ...
Nearly a century ago, Mitchell computed the chances to be 500,000 to 1 against the stars composing the group of the Pleiades being fortuitously concentrated within the small apparent space which they occupy; and he thence infers the ...
‎1849
9
The Ethics of Voting
Fortuitous voters do not know they are voting fortuitously. To know they are voting fortuitously, they would have to know that they are not justified in believing that their vote will serve the common good, but also to know—and therefore to be ...
Jason Brennan, 2012
10
The Challenge of Creation: Judaism's Encounter with Science, ...
Still more fortuitously, the sun does not emit any of the numerous utterly lethal types of radiation, such as gamma rays. This coincidence has been described by Ian Campbell in Energy and the Atmosphere as “staggering”—with considerable  ...
Natan Slifkin, Nosson Slifkin, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FORTUITOUSLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term fortuitously is used in the context of the following news items.
1
'The Amish Project' comes to Sarasota
That necessitated some scheduling changes that worked out fortuitously: The Oklahoma City performance ended up coinciding with the 20th ... «Bradenton Herald, Jul 15»
2
Gorleston 0 Norwich City 7
Turner almost marked his introduction with a sixth but Gorleston's centre back fortuitously headed against the underside of his own bar and the ... «Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, Jul 15»
3
Sparta woman's story of faith and courage inspires
The tale of courage begins with Callahan feeling short of breath during a vacation with her husband; a vacation which, fortuitously, through a ... «New Jersey Herald, Jul 15»
4
VIDEO - St Helens 35 Huddersfield 34: Giants denied as Walsh's …
... with their first attack, James Roby's dinked grubber bouncing back fortuitously off Grix for Quinlan to get the first of his treble on 16 minutes. «Yorkshire Post, Jul 15»
5
Soccer-Panama and Honduras draw ill-tempered Gold Cup match
Andy Najar's penalty attempt was then brilliantly pushed onto the crossbar by Panama keeper Jaime Penedo but the ball fortuitously cannoned ... «Yahoo Sports, Jul 15»
6
Celtic 1 - 0 Real Sociedad: Win boosts Hoops morale
... seconds later he linked up inside the box with Mackay-Steven, perhaps fortuitously, before the Celtic wide-man swept the ball low past Rulli. «Scotsman, Jul 15»
7
Why China's market crash won't mean global chaos
Fortuitously, that is not the case for China in 2015. A comparison with the United States is especially pertinent. Prior to the Great Crisis of ... «Fortune, Jul 15»
8
Regulators, Generators, IMM Seek Changes to PJM Capacity …
“The penalties assessed against Homer City in that event would be funneled to other, luckier resources, which were fortuitously not in the ... «RTO Insider, Jul 15»
9
Ashes 2015: Stuart Broad holds nerve to help England tail wag and …
Broad fortuitously when he was recalled by the umpires when television replays proved Adam Voges had grounded a low catch at short leg. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
10
Cork City bow out after disappointment in Iceland
After being subjected to a barrage of KR attacks in the opening 10 minutes, Mark O'Sullivan fortuitously put the Leesiders ahead against the run ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»

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