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fortunately

Syllables: for·tu·nate·lyUK/ˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li//ˈfɔɹ.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/

fortunately adverb: in a fortunate manner.

Adverb

fortunately (comparative more fortunately, superlative most fortunately)

  1. In a fortunate manner.
  2. It is (or was, etc) fortunate that.
    • Fortunately for Sam, his pet hamster was alive.
    • My mom has fortunately agreed to help us with the science project for school.

fortunately meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

fortunately in Hindi

fortunately, with good fortune
भाग्यवश bhāgyavaś
fortunately
ख़ुशक़िस्मती से xuśqismatī se

fortunately in Urdu

خوش قسمتی سے

fortunately in Bengali

ভাগ্যক্রমে, সৌভাগ্যবশত

fortunately in Malayalam

by good luck, luckily, by good fortune
ഭാഗ്യംകൊണ്ട്, ഭാഗ്യവശാൽ, ഭാഗ്യവശമായി, സൗഭാഗ്യേന, ഭാഗ്യത്താൽ, ദിഷ്ട്യാ
More languagesFewer languages
fortunately in Gujarati
સદનસીબે sadansībe, સદ્ભાગ્યે sadbhāgye
fortunately in Tagalog
sa kabutihang palad
fortunately in Arabic
لِحُسْن اَلْحَظّ li-ḥusn al-ḥaẓẓ
fortunately in Indonesian
untungnya
fortunately in Persian
خوشبختانه xošbaxtâne

Examples of fortunately in a sentence

  • […]the best thing to do is to curl up with a good goose-flesher and try to forget, and fortunately I had packed among my effects one called Murder at Greystone Grange.1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season:
  • Fortunately — very fortunately — the American people have a happy alternative to this bankrupt Republican campaign and its captive candidate.1952, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, page 807:
  • Most pitchside medical staff fortunately will never have to treat a life threatening injury on the field of play.2005, Gregory P. Whyte, Mark Harries, Clyde Williams, ABC of sports and exercise medicine, page 4:
  • Fortunately for the noncampers, half of the hotel rooms overlook the seaside stage, making attendance almost automatic, and very convenient in bad weather.2015 September 10, Lynn Zinser, “At Hawaii Resort, Yoga by Day, Party by Night”, in The New York Times:

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Synonyms of fortunately

All synonyms of fortunately

Forms of fortunately

comparativemore fortunately
superlativemost fortunately

Origin of fortunately

From fortunate + -ly.

Words formed from fortunately

Questions about fortunately

What does fortunately mean?
Fortunately means in a fortunate manner.
What is fortunately in Hindi?
Fortunately in Hindi is भाग्यवश (bhāgyavaś), ख़ुशक़िस्मती से (xuśqismatī se). See Fortunately meaning in Hindi.
How do you use fortunately in a sentence?
[…]the best thing to do is to curl up with a good goose-flesher and try to forget, and fortunately I had packed among my effects one called Murder at Greystone Grange.
What part of speech is fortunately?
Fortunately is an adverb.
How do you pronounce fortunately?
Fortunately is pronounced /ˈfɔː.t͡ʃə.nɪt.li/ (UK).

Words near fortunately in the dictionary

  1. fortunae
  2. fortunant
  3. fortunantly
  4. fortunate
  5. Fortunate Isles
  6. fortunately
  7. fortunateness
  8. fortunatenesses
  9. fortunatest
  10. Fortunato
  11. Fortunatos

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fortunately (page history and authors); ख़ुशक़िस्मती से (Hindi) (page history and authors); fortunately (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fortunately (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); fortunately (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); સદનસીબે (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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