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Meaning of "serendipitously" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SERENDIPITOUSLY

serendipitously  [ˌserənˈdɪpɪtəslɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SERENDIPITOUSLY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Serendipitously 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 SERENDIPITOUSLY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

serendipitously

Serendipity

Serendipity means a "fortuitous happenstance" or "pleasant surprise". It was coined by Horace Walpole in 1754. In a letter he wrote to a friend Walpole explained an unexpected discovery he had made by reference to a Persian fairy tale, The Three Princes of Serendip. The princes, he told his correspondent, were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”. The notion of serendipity is a common occurrence throughout the history of scientific innovation such as Alexander Fleming's accidental discovery of penicillin in 1928, and the invention of the microwave oven by Percy Spencer in 1945. The word has been voted one of the ten English words hardest to translate in June 2004 by a British translation company. However, due to its sociological use, the word has been exported into many other languages.

Definition of serendipitously in the English dictionary

The definition of serendipitously in the dictionary is in a serendipitous manner, fortunately, by lucky chance.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SERENDIPITOUSLY


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

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SERENDIPITOUSLY

sere
serein
Seremban
serenade
serenader
serenata
serenate
serendipitist
serendipitous
serendipity
serene
serenely
sereneness
serenities
serenity
serf
serfage
serfdom
serfhood

WORDS THAT END LIKE SERENDIPITOUSLY

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 serendipitously in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «serendipitously» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SERENDIPITOUSLY

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

Translator English - Chinese

无心插柳
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

casualmente
570 millions of speakers

English

serendipitously
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

serendipitously
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مصادفة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

по счастливой случайности
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

serendipitously
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

serendipitously
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

par hasard
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Serendipitously
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

serendipitously
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

思いがけなくも
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

serendipitously
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Serendipitously
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tình cờ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தற்செயலாகக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Serendipitously
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

serendipitously
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

serendipitously
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

nieoczekiwanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

по щасливому випадку
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

serendipitously
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

serendipitously
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

serendipitously
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

serendipitously
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

serendipitously
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of serendipitously

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SERENDIPITOUSLY»

The term «serendipitously» is regularly used and occupies the 85.963 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SERENDIPITOUSLY» OVER TIME

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

EXAMPLES

QUOTES WITH «SERENDIPITOUSLY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word serendipitously.
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Angela Sarafyan
I prefer for things to happen serendipitously, but honestly, I also love terrible pickup lines.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SERENDIPITOUSLY»

Discover the use of serendipitously in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to serendipitously and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Serendipitously Rich: How to Get Delightfully, Delectably, ...
Madeleine Kay takes the best of the world of spirit and the world of finances and brings them together in a way that is fun, practical, easy, natural...and ridiculously simple.
Madeleine Kay, 2009
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Living Serendipitously: Keeping the Wonder Alive
Einstein said, "There are only two ways to live your life - as though nothing is a miracle or as though everything is a miracle." Living Serendipitously aligns us with the everything.
Madeleine Kay, 2003
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Label-Free Technologies For Drug Discovery
... Discovery path Leads discovered serendipitously in studies investigating mechanism of extracellular Ca3+ influx Binding assays followed by functional assays, differentiating factors found serendipitously Predecessor found serendipitously; ...
Matthew Cooper, Lorenz M. Mayr, 2011
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Flirting with Forever
“If we err, we should not add unnecessarily to our burden. Failure is enough. Nor should we try to avoid the good things that come our way serendipitously, even when the reasons for them are unclear.” She thought of that book on Amazon and  ...
Gwyn Cready, 2010
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Searching for Molecular Solutions: Empirical Discovery and ...
discover serendipitously some useful agents for entirely different medical problems. Having a need to make sense of the universe, she may later invent explanations for the effects of her pharmacopoeia involving magic or spirits. These ad hoc ...
Ian S. Dunn, 2010
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Mining the Sky: Proceedings of the MPA/ESO/MPE Workshop Held ...
These extreme events have been picked up serendipitously in the course of other DPOSS work. A systematic search for variable or transient sources is likely to yield many more. Likewise, the low surface brightness universe (at any ...
A.J. Banday, S. Zaroubi, Matthias L. Bartelmann, 2001
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Lyman Alpha Emitting Galaxies at High Redshift
In §2.3 we describe the redshift determination and the process by which the serendipitously detected galaxies were visually identified. We present the catalog of serendipitously detected galaxies in §2.4, and we discuss their distribution in ...
Steven Arthur Dawson, 2005
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Drug Discovery: Practices, Processes, and Perspectives
serendipitously. Given its superiority over the only available therapy at the time, potassium bromide, it quickly became the leading drug in the field and was only displaced once its side effects were better appreciated and newer drugs, such as  ...
Jie Jack Li, E. J. Corey, 2013
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Money for Nothing: One Man's Journey Through the Dark Side ...
A marketing expert who for many years made an ethically questionable living by enabling naive lottery winners to convert their payout terms into less-valuable cash settlements reveals how many winners of the lottery find themselves worse ...
Edward Ugel, 2007
10
The Music of the Big Bang: The Cosmic Microwave Background ...
The book focuses on how the exploration of the cosmic background radiation has shaped our picture of the Universe, leading even the non-specialized readers towards the frontier of cosmological research, helping them to understand, using a ...
Amedeo Balbi, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SERENDIPITOUSLY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term serendipitously is used in the context of the following news items.
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Exchange Bank earnings serendipitously soar 24%
SANTA ROSA — Exchange Bank (NASDAQ: EXSR) reported that its second-quarter earnings climbed 24 percent from a year before. Quarterly earnings rose to ... «North Bay Business Journal, Jul 15»
2
Lessons from a Goddess of Compassion: Live With Joy, Even While …
Serendipitously, we reconnected in Florida two months ago. 2015-07-07-1436290101-4193069-WhiteTara_3smA.jpg Compassion and generosity flow through ... «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
3
Celebrating Calder: Cahiers d'Art celebrates latest release with …
Staffan Ahrenberg and Alexander S. C. Rower commenced the second leg of what has serendipitously shaped up to be a three-part Calder caravan, the release ... «wallpaper.com, Jun 15»
4
Long Lost Sisters Serendipitously Find Each Other at Columbia …
Long Lost Sisters Serendipitously Find Each Other at Columbia University. More. The two women took the same writing class and eventually found out they were ... «ABC News, May 15»
5
Invisible inks could help foil counterfeiters of all kinds
Stoddart's research team, led by Xisen Hou and Chenfeng Ke, stumbled across the water-based ink composite serendipitously. A series of rigorous follow-up ... «Phys.Org, Apr 15»
6
Oral Treatment for Muscle Cramps May Help Patients With MS
The idea behind a possible new treatment for spasticity in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) came serendipitously — in a boat on the open sea. When two ... «Medscape, Feb 15»
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
Serendipitously, my brother phoned while I was writing about how liberals mistreat blacks. He watched a reality TV show in which the white host visited a black ... «WND.com, Feb 15»
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The Serendipitous Creation Behind 'Song One'
But Kate Barker-Froyland's “Song One” came together serendipitously. The musical film follows Franny (Anne Hathaway) who, after her brother is seriously ... «Back Stage, Jan 15»
9
San Clemente Man Arrested in Fatal Hit and Run
... Coast Highway just before 3 a.m. New Year's Day, and the suspected hit and run driver was serendipitously arrested minutes later today in Laguna Beach. «Patch.com, Jan 15»
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Accidental text serendipitously sent to couple looking to help out …
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Calling the wrong number happens all the time and can be embarrassing. But have you ever sent a text to the wrong person? It happened ... «fox4kc.com, Dec 14»

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