fortuitous English

Meaning fortuitous meaning

What does fortuitous mean?

fortuitous

— adjective occurring by happy chance profits were enhanced by a fortuitous drop in the cost of raw materials

— adjective (= causeless, uncaused) having no cause or apparent cause a causeless miracle fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune we cannot regard artistic invention as...uncaused and unrelated to the times

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accidental

chance

casual

random

unforeseen

uncaused

incidental

causeless

lucky

contingent

coincidental

abrupt

unsuspected

unlooked-for

unintentional

unheralded

unforeseeable

unexpected

unanticipated

stray

fortunate

by chance

astonishing

adventitious

windfall

unwitting

untoward

unthought-of

unthought

unprepared

unpremeditated

unpredicted

unplanned

unobvious

unhoped-for

unhoped

undesigned

unapparent

unannounced

unacknowledged

unaccustomed

surprising

sudden

stunning

sporadic

serendipitous

scratch

randomly

prosperous

occasional