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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fortunate
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a happy/lucky/fortunate coincidence
▪ It was just a happy coincidence that he was there too.
consider yourself lucky/fortunate (=believe you are lucky etc)
▪ Consider yourself lucky you weren’t in the car at the time.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ I wonder if the polls will be as fortunate.
▪ Then you would be as fortunate as I have been.
▪ The reality is that few of you will be as fortunate.
▪ But we were lucky to be alive; so many people we knew had not been as fortunate.
▪ How much worse it must be for those who haven't been as fortunate as I in recovering from such trauma.
extremely
▪ It is unusual to find documentary evidence earlier than the fifteenth century, and extremely fortunate to find actual details of buildings.
▪ The company I was in was extremely fortunate.
▪ Pond keepers are extremely fortunate to have a vast selection of waterlilies to choose from, available in many shades of colour.
▪ Conner and Kolb were extremely fortunate to escape both the enemy and fire from their own side.
▪ Ambulance crews who treated the child said she was extremely fortunate not to suffer serious eye injuries in the incident.
▪ Earth was extremely fortunate to receive no more than a rain of fireballs during the twelfth century!
▪ Yet Simmons was extremely fortunate to survive beyond his first over.
▪ We are extremely fortunate that such a devastating virus is so difficult to effectively transmit from person to person.
how
▪ Caesar will never know how fortunate he was to survive this episode.
▪ He fears this may be so, irrespective of how fortunate his situation may be in reality.
▪ Collecting rubbish, he thought, would remind him of how fortunate he was even to have been on the circuit.
▪ As Finch approached Howland, she, too, realized how fortunate she was to be able to find the island.
▪ The Gala youngster acknowledges how fortunate he has been in the folk who have advised him along the way.
▪ Talking with others about ideas. How fortunate for you.
▪ I know girls in their twenties who do, so I realise how fortunate I am.
▪ Your own and only property. How fortunate can a man get, friends?
less
▪ Ten years later Lord Francis Russell was less fortunate.
▪ A hired hand who worked miracles and shared what little he had with those few who were less fortunate.
▪ For those of us who are less fortunate, Correct Letters could come in handy.
▪ We lesser mortals who had been banished to such places as Wolverton were, however, less fortunate.
▪ The other child whom I noticed in that Fourth Grade room was in an obvious way less fortunate.
▪ For those of us less fortunate in the audience Bocca's technical prowess was devastating enough.
▪ Phoenix officials often talk of the helping hand they give to the less fortunate.
more
▪ For many the comparison is not with those who are more fortunate but with their own past position.
▪ Despite his ordeal, Weathers was far more fortunate than others trapped in the blizzard.
▪ I couldn't have been more fortunate in working with two more intelligent and delightful men.
▪ Yet he is more fortunate than most landowners, because he owns frontage on the Guadalupe River, which is still running.
▪ They had heating in their classrooms and dormitories, and therefore were more fortunate than their southern colleagues.
▪ The end of my days was reserved for another, and I hope more fortunate, occasion.
▪ By the order of words the poet even hints that Thessaly is more fortunate than her sister Sparta.
▪ Some were more fortunate than others because their land had a spring.
most
▪ The Liverpool mourners were most fortunate than most.
▪ When Troy fell, Agamemnon was the most fortunate of the victorious chieftains.
▪ I gasped at her beauty and, like the rest, threw envious glances at her most fortunate husband.
▪ You can consider yourself most fortunate to be blessed like this with such a strong celestial advantage.
▪ My wile and I consider this to be a most fortunate match.
so
▪ Not all were so fortunate with their billetors.
▪ This voyage was not so fortunate as the first two.
▪ A Guardian journalist, Sarah Tisdall, was not so fortunate.
▪ We were ever so fortunate as to recover your collection intact.
▪ Carrick himself was not so fortunate.
▪ What of children who are not so fortunate?
very
▪ We are very fortunate that Peggy Spencer has agreed to take the afternoon herself.
▪ We are very fortunate in this country to say that prosperity and suffering, both are inherently contributing factors for unity.
▪ So far I have been very fortunate and have had at least one painting accepted each time I have tried.
▪ I was very fortunate to get the first one.
▪ Otherwise we have been very fortunate.
▪ He was just a very extraordinary man and I was very fortunate to have had those twelve years.
▪ We were very fortunate to sell it to some one in Charleston.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ David managed to escape, but the others were not so fortunate.
▪ I am fortunate to work in a school where all the children are extremely motivated.
▪ It is extremely fortunate that there was no-one in the building when the bomb went off.
▪ It was a fortunate coincidence that the police were passing by just then.
▪ People have been very helpful - I'm very fortunate.
▪ Some plants actually prefer a lot of shade, which is fortunate for gardeners choosing plants for gloomy corners.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He had been fortunate in getting the job with Joe Maitland, he had to admit.
▪ Others are fortunate to find supportive faculty, administrators, and fellow students.
▪ Some children are fortunate in that their parents or teachers provide an excited audience for their ideas and plot lines.
▪ The Gala youngster acknowledges how fortunate he has been in the folk who have advised him along the way.
▪ The library media specialist is, in the midst of these dilemmas, in a unique and fortunate position.
▪ This Christmas, I sincerely hope your hearts will go out to those less fortunate than yourselves.
▪ We were ever so fortunate as to recover your collection intact.
▪ You are very fortunate that I don't make you actually sit in the real sea.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fortunate

Fortunate \For"tu*nate\ (?; 135), a. [L. fortunatus, p. p. of fortunare to make fortunate or prosperous, fr. fortuna. See Fortune, n.]

  1. Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment.

  2. Receiving same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky.

    Syn: Auspicious; lucky; prosperous; successful; favored; happy.

    Usage: Fortunate, Successful, Prosperous. A man is fortunate, when he is favored of fortune, and has unusual blessings fall to his lot; successful when he gains what he aims at; prosperous when he succeeds in those things which men commonly desire. One may be fortunate, in some cases, where he is not successful; he may be successful, but, if he has been mistaken in the value of what he has aimed at, he may for that reason fail to be prosperous.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
fortunate

late 14c., "having good fortune; bringing good fortune," from Latin fortunatus "prospered, prosperous; lucky, happy," past participle of fortunare "to make prosperous," from fortuna (see fortune). Fortunate Islands "mythical abode of the blessed dead, in the Western Ocean" (early 15c.; late 14c. as Ilondes of fortune) translates Latin Fortunatae Insulae.

Wiktionary
fortunate

a. 1 Coming by good luck or favorable chance. 2 Bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain. 3 Presaging happiness. 4 auspicious. 5 Receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts. 6 lucky, favored by fortune.

WordNet
fortunate

  1. adj. having unexpected good fortune; "other, less fortunate, children died"; "a fortunate choice" [ant: unfortunate]

  2. supremely favored or fortunate; "golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust" [syn: favored, golden]

  3. presaging good fortune; "she made a fortunate decision to go to medical school"; "rosy predictions" [syn: hopeful, rosy]

Wikipedia
Fortunate

"Fortunate" is a neo soul song from the 1999 motion picture Life and was released on the film's soundtrack. The song was written, composed, produced and arranged by R. Kelly and recorded by Maxwell. "Fortunate" was awarded Best R&B Single of the Year at the Billboard Music Awards and Best R&B/Soul Single (Male) at Soul Train Awards. Maxwell was nominated for a Grammy for Best R&B Male Vocalist and also nominated for a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Song of the Year.

The song, Maxwell's biggest hit to date, spent eight weeks at number one on the US R&B chart and peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100. It is his first number-one R&B hit, eventually followed by " Pretty Wings" in 2009.

According to R. Kelly, Maxwell didn't want to sing "Fortunate". Instead, he wanted to sing the song "Life" - which Kelly gave to K-Ci & JoJo. Kelly rejected Maxwell's idea because he felt that neo-soul singer wouldn't have been believable singing a song from the perspective of a prison inmate.

Usage examples of "fortunate".

They all agreed in the aftertime, that it was a fortunate hour in which Evan rode the unwilling Carmen through the narrow, uninviting main street of Canvas Town.

It was fortunate for me that I did not procure these volumes till I had heard them very generally spoken of, for the curiosity I felt to know the contents of a work so violently anathematised, led me to make enquiries which elicited a great deal of curious feeling.

I refer to him daily to a billion people as Antichrist, the enemy of God, and to Fortunate as his False Prophet?

Kane reflected grimly that it was a fortunate thing that, in Bahrein, gunfire in the night was not so unique as to arouse comment.

It had been fortunate for him that the Qin had acquired battleships and then did so much damage to Fleet facilities.

I was fortunate to be a part of that new beginning, though I was but a small finger of the bioengineering touch group entrusted with the project.

Perhaps it was fortunate the last bonbon had now been eaten, for they might easily have caused considerably more trouble than they did.

We see those even in Botswana, where we are so fortunate in many ways.

Consequently the Caesarians no longer mourned such as were perishing but counted them fortunate to escape from further torment, and in their hopelessness wished that they, too, were among those already dead, wounded were far more in number than those died, and being struck from a distance with stones and javelins and receiving no blow from near at hand their wounds were in many places, and not as a rule favorably located.

It was fortunate for Rupert that he was inclined to do so, and restful for Carole, since talking kept the mermaids from trying out any of their siren songs on him.

But, however this may be, I was fortunate enough to find the set of letters which I was most anxious to find the letters from Henriette, whose loss every writer on Casanova has lamented.

Inside the stable, others more fortunate stood in stalls, but they were such horses as will snap at you when you pass by them, and Inman turned and watched as a claybank mare bit a collop of flesh as big as a walnut out of the upper arm of one of the old market-bound men passing through the hall on the way to his room.

I have been fortunate enough to secure the services of an able and distinguished lady whose qualifications happen to be a good deal higher than those required for the post, but who is anxious to obtain a first-hand impression of a coeducational day-school of an advanced modern type.

I felt that it was fortunate for me that I had Goudar, who introduced me to all the most famous courtezans in London, above all to the illustrious Kitty Fisher, who was just beginning to be fashionable.

As we rode the short distance between the two herds and I mentally reviewed the situation, I could not help but think it was fortunate for the alien outfit that their employer was a Northern cowman instead of a Texan.