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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
serendipitous

1914; see serendipity + -ous. Related: Serendipitously.

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serendipitous

a. 1 By serendipity; by unexpected good fortune. 2 Good, beneficial, favorable, etc..

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serendipitous

adj. being lucky in making unexpected and furtunate discoveries

Usage examples of "serendipitous".

Therefore a robot is not intuitive, which is the polite way of saying that it does not frequently reach down into the maelstrom of its garbage dump and draw out serendipitous insights.

I began reviewing their history with this in mind, and I was struck by a serendipitous insight into our relationship to the grand scheme of things.

And it seemed that the pacifier was still having some serendipitous effect.

At any rate, the association between these two was serendipitous, and could do no harm at all.

Not in the least likely, of course, that Tabini had foreseen his invitation to a fatal tea: even for the aiji-dowager, it was too serendipitous and too strange, over all-even if one grew extremely suspicious when accidents happened in the presence of persons of twice-denied ambition.

The Russian must have been in his thirties when whichever one of them -- or whichever synergic and serendipitous cocktail of several -- had kicked in to give even more longevity than had ever been promised, with the aging process not just delayed but -- so far -- abolished.

Close up, the machinery looked almost organic -- it had that evolved complexity, unplanned and serendipitous, that you can see in electron micrographs of cells and in flowcharts of mitochondria.

Close up, the machinery looked almost organic -- it had that evolved complexity, unplanned and serendipitous, that you can see in electron micrographs of cells and in flowcharts of mitochondria.

When Ice Age hunter-gatherers noticed burned sand and limestone residues in their hearths, it was impossible for them to foresee the long, serendipitous accumulation of discoveries that would lead to the first Roman glass windows (around a.

Twelve gave it up within a year, two discovered serendipitous side effects and forgot about the original specification, and the last had a diode misconnected by an incompetent robot-employee and came up with §.