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fortuit

fortuit adjective: fortuitous.

Adjective

fortuit (comparative more fortuit, superlative most fortuit)

  1. (obsolete) Fortuitous.
    • And so for false fears and all other fortuit inconveniences, mischances, calamities, to resist and prepare ourselves, not to faint is best […].1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II...

Forms of fortuit

comparativemore fortuit
superlativemost fortuit

Origin of fortuit

Borrowed from Middle French fortuit, from Latin fortuitus.

Questions about fortuit

What does fortuit mean?
Fortuit means fortuitous.
What part of speech is fortuit?
Fortuit is an adjective.

Words near fortuit in the dictionary

  1. Fortriu
  2. Fortrose
  3. forts
  4. Fortson
  5. Fortsons
  6. fortuit
  7. fortuities
  8. fortuitism
  9. fortuitist
  10. fortuitists
  11. fortuitous

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