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fortuituous

fortuituous is the alternative form of fortuitous.

Meaning of fortuitous

Adjective

fortuitous (comparative more fortuitous, superlative most fortuitous)

  1. Happening by fortune or chance; accidental, coincidental.
    • [I]f vve be not perverſe and vvillful, vve are to inferre that it [the tilt of the Earth's axis] vvas eſtabliſhed by a Principle that has in it Knovvledge and Counſell, not from a blind fortuitous jumbling of the parts of the Matter one againſt another, eſpecially having found before in ourſelves a...1653, Henry More, “The Universall Matter of the World be It Homogeneall or Heterogeneall, Self Mov’d or Resting of It Self, that It can Never be Contriv’d into that Order It is without the...
    1. Happening by good fortune or success; fortunate, lucky.
      • And then he met John Dowsett, the great John Dowsett. The whole thing was fortuitous. This cannot be doubted.1910 October, Jack London, chapter I, in Burning Daylight, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, part II, page 128
  2. Happening independently of human control; uncontrollable.
    Synonyms:
    irresistible

Forms of fortuituous

comparativemore fortuituous
superlativemost fortuituous

Questions about fortuituous

What is fortuituous the alternative form of?
Fortuituous is the alternative form of fortuitous.

Words near fortuituous in the dictionary

  1. fortuitist
  2. fortuitists
  3. fortuitous
  4. fortuitously
  5. fortuitousness
  6. fortuituous
  7. fortuity
  8. Fortuna
  9. fortunae
  10. fortunant
  11. fortunantly

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