lucky
UK/ˈlʌki/
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Northern England/ˈlʊki/
lucky adjective: favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.
Adjective
lucky (comparative luckier or more lucky, superlative luckiest or most lucky)
- Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.
- a lucky adventurer
- The downed pilot is very lucky to be alive.
- Synonyms:
- fortunate, successful
- Producing, or resulting in, good fortune
- a lucky mistake
- a lucky cast
- Synonyms:
- favorable, auspicious, fortunate, auspicial, fortuitous, propitious, prosperous, serendipitous, teratical
Noun
lucky
Proper noun capitalized: Lucky
Lucky (plural Luckys)
- A surname.
- A given name for a dog.
lucky meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
lucky in Hindi
- of people, having good fortune
- भाग्यशाली bhāgyaśālī, ख़ुशक़िस्मत xuśqismat
- being good by chance
- भाग्यशाली bhāgyaśālī
lucky in Tamil
- அதிர்ஷ்டசாலி, அதிர்ஷ்டம்
lucky in Marathi
- नशीबवान, भाग्यवान
lucky in Urdu
- a lucky or auspicious object
- سوستک svastik
- lucky
- شبھ śubh
More languagesFewer languages
- lucky in Bengali
- চাঁদকপালে cãdkôpale, চানকপাইল্যা s̲ankôpailla, স্বস্তিকা śostika
- lucky in Telugu
- స్వస్తిక svastika
- lucky in Malayalam
- ഭാഗ്യമുള്ള, യോഗമുള്ള, ഈശ്വരാനുഗ്രഹമുള്ള, ദെെവാധീനമുള്ള
- lucky in Kannada
- ಸ್ವಸ್ತಿಕ svastika
- lucky in Punjabi
- ਖੁਸ਼ਕਿਸਮਤ, ਖੁਸ਼ਕਿਸਮਤ ਹੈ
- lucky in Gujarati
- સ્વસ્તિક svastik
- lucky in Odia
- ଭାଗ୍ଯ଼ବାନ, ଭାଗ୍ଯ଼ଶାଳୀ
- lucky in Nepali
- भाग्यमानी, भाग्यशाली
- lucky in Tagalog
- manigo
- lucky in Arabic
- مَحْظُوظ maḥẓūẓ, جَالِب للحَظّ
- lucky in Malay
- bertuah
- lucky in Persian
- خوشبخت xošbaxt, بختیار baxtiyâr, خوششانس xoš-šâns
- lucky in Thai
- มีโชค mii-chôok, มีโชคดี mii chôok dii, เฮง heng, โอกาสดี oo-gàat dii
- lucky in Vietnamese
- may, may mắn, hên
Examples of lucky in a sentence
- They sad ’cause they in their bowl / But fish in the bowl is lucky / They in for a worser fate1989, “Under the Sea”, in Howard Ashman (lyrics), Alan Menken (music), The Little Mermaid:
- A local doctor had bought one canvas and but for that lucky chance he would have been out of pocket.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 17:
Synonyms of lucky
- fortunate
- successful
- favorable
- auspicious
- auspicial
- fortuitous
- propitious
- prosperous
- serendipitous
- charmed
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Antonyms
Forms of lucky
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | luckier |
| comparative | more lucky |
| superlative | luckiest |
| superlative | most lucky |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Luckys |
Origin of lucky
From Middle English lukky, equivalent to luck + -y. Cognate with Scots lucky (“lucky”), West Frisian lokkich (“lucky, fortunate”), Dutch gelukkig (“lucky, fortunate, happy”). Compare also Danish lykkelig (“happy”), Swedish lycklig (“happy, lucky”), German glücklich (“happy”), Saterland Frisian glukkelk (“happy”).
Words formed from lucky
- cut one's lucky
- get lucky
- happy-go-lucky
- luckily
- luckiness
- lucky bag
- lucky bamboo
- lucky break
- lucky charm
- lucky clover
- Lucky Country
- lucky devil
- lucky dip
- lucky dog
- lucky draw
- lucky duck
- lucky duckling
- lucky girl syndrome
- lucky grouper
- lucky imaging
- lucky loser
- lucky money
- lucky nut
- Lucky Pierre
- lucky scoop
- lucky star
- lucky stiff
- lucky streak
- lucky you
- one should be so lucky
- strike it lucky
- strike lucky
- strike me lucky
- superlucky
- third time lucky
- today's lucky 10,000
- today's lucky ten thousand
- unlucky
- you have to be good to be lucky
Phrases with lucky
- got lucky
- gets lucky
- lucky bags
- lucky dips
- lucky dogs
- lucky nuts
- lucky draws
- lucky ducks
- lucky ducky
- lucky stars
- gotten lucky
- lucky breaks
29 more phrasesFewer phrases
- lucky charms
- lucky devils
- lucky duckie
- lucky losers
- lucky scoops
- lucky stiffs
- getting lucky
- lucky bamboos
- lucky clovers
- lucky duckies
- Lucky Pierres
- lucky streaks
- lucky groupers
- lucky ducklings
- struck it lucky
- cuts one's lucky
- strikes it lucky
- striking it lucky
- under a lucky star
- cutting one's lucky
- count one's lucky stars
- thank one's lucky stars
- counts one's lucky stars
- thanks one's lucky stars
- counted one's lucky stars
- thanked one's lucky stars
- counting one's lucky stars
- thanking one's lucky stars
- lucky at cards, unlucky in love
Words that rhyme with lucky
Questions about lucky
- What does lucky mean?
- Lucky means favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.
- What is lucky in Hindi?
- Lucky in Hindi is भाग्यशाली (bhāgyaśālī), ख़ुशक़िस्मत (xuśqismat). See Lucky meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use lucky in a sentence?
- They sad ’cause they in their bowl / But fish in the bowl is lucky / They in for a worser fate
- What part of speech is lucky?
- Lucky can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce lucky?
- Lucky is pronounced /ˈlʌki/ (UK).
Words near lucky in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: lucky (page history and authors); Lucky (page history and authors); lucky (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lucky (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); سوستک (Urdu) (page history and authors); চাঁদকপালে (Bengali) (page history and authors); స్వస్తిక (Telugu) (page history and authors); lucky (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); ಸ್ವಸ್ತಿಕ (Kannada) (page history and authors); lucky (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); સ્વસ્તિક (Gujarati) (page history and authors); lucky (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); lucky (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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