Definitions for fortuitous

fortuitous for·tu·i·tous

Spelling: [fawr-too-i-tuh s, -tyoo-]
IPA: /fɔrˈtu ɪ təs, -ˈtyu-/

Fortuitous is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 264 anagrams from letters in fortuitous (fioorsttuu).

Definitions for fortuitous

adjective

  1. happening or produced by chance; accidental:
  2. lucky; fortunate:

Origin of fortuitous

1645-55; Latin fortuitus, fortuītus, equivalent to fortu- (u-stem base, otherwise unattested, akin to fors, genitive fortis chance, luck) + -itus, -ītus adj. suffix (for formation cf.

Examples for fortuitous

But all kinds of fortuitous circumstances—important people “seeing that”—led him to getting cast in Inside Llewyn Davis.

There are difficulties as to minute modifications, even if not fortuitous.

Invention was no longer the fortuitous result of a happy chance.

Nor would the treasure ever have been found but for a most fortuitous accident.

“It was a fortuitous discovery,” Bruenn told The Daily Beast last week.

Yet we find a few fortuitous circumstances that favored his evolution.

It was a fortuitous decision, because the plaza's roof happened to be crammed with several hundred refugees.

All of which is why the juxtaposition of these two cases is fortuitous.

This was not the proportion that there should have been if the mortality had been fortuitous.

And 1968 was a fortuitous year to become European Champions: it was the year that defined an age.

Word Value for fortuitous
Scrable

13

Words with friends

15

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