good luck
/ˌɡʊd ˈlʌk/
good luck noun: desirable or beneficial fortune.
Noun
good luck (uncountable)
- Desirable or beneficial fortune.
- “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- good fortune, horseshoe up one's ass, felicity, fortune, fortuitousness, fortuity, good cess, happiness, luck
- Antonyms:
- bad luck
- “[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
Interjection
- Used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement; a benediction or valediction.
- Near-synonym: God bless
- Synonyms:
- best of luck, break a leg, come on, more power to your elbow, toi, toi, toi, God bless
good luck meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
good luck in Hindi
- used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- शुभ कामना! śubh kāmnā!
good luck in Tamil
- நற்பேறு, நல்லூழ்
good luck in Urdu
- used to wish fortune on someone or as encouragement
- شبھ کامنا, کامیاب رہیے kāmyāb rahiye
good luck in Bengali
- good luck, good fortune
- সৌভাগ্য śōubhaggo
More languagesFewer languages
- good luck in Telugu
- సౌభాగ్యము saubhāgyamu
- good luck in Kannada
- ಅದೃಷ್ಟ, ಭಾಗ್ಯ
- good luck in Punjabi
- ਭਾਗ ਚੰਗੇ ਹੋਣ bhāg caṅge hoṇ
- good luck in Sanskrit
- शुभं भवतु śubhaṃ bhavatu
- good luck in Nepali
- शुभ कामना śubh kāmanā
- good luck in Arabic
- بِالتَّوْفِيق! bi-t-tawfīq!, حَظًّا سَعِيدًا! ḥaẓẓan saʕīdan!, حَظّ سَعِيد! ḥaẓẓ saʕīd!, بِالنَّجَاح bi-n-najāḥ
- good luck in Indonesian
- semoga beruntung, semangat
- good luck in Persian
- موفق باشید movaffaq bâšid, موفق باشی movaffaq bâši
- good luck in Thai
- โชคดี chôok-dii, ขอให้โชคดี kɔ̌ɔ-hâi chôok-dii
Synonyms of good luck
- good fortune
- horseshoe up one's ass
- fortune
- fortuitousness
- fortuity
- good cess
- luck
- best of luck
- break a leg
- come on
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Antonyms
Words formed from good luck
Questions about good luck
- What does good luck mean?
- Good luck means desirable or beneficial fortune.
- What is good luck in Hindi?
- Good luck in Hindi is शुभ कामना! (śubh kāmnā!). See Good luck meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is good luck?
- Good luck can be a noun or an interjection.
- How do you pronounce good luck?
- Good luck is pronounced /ˌɡʊd ˈlʌk/.
Words near good luck in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: good luck (page history and authors); good luck (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); সৌভাগ্য (Bengali) (page history and authors); good luck (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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