Definition of Fortunate

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Fortunate

Coming by good luck or favorable chance; bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain; presaging happiness; auspicious; as, a fortunate event; a fortunate concurrence of circumstances; a fortunate investment.

Receiving same unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts; favored with good forune; lucky.

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Fortunate Quotations

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
Helen Keller

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
Plutarch

I've been very fortunate to be able to use my series as a platform to show a good message for the kids.
Chuck Norris

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
Marquis de Sade

President Johnson and I have a lot in common. We were both born in small towns and we're both fortunate in the fact that we think we married above ourselves.
Richard M. Nixon

Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
Francis Bacon

Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Rose Kennedy

We live in such a sheltered environment in the United States. I've been fortunate enough to have traveled all over the world, and I've seen things you only read about and see on the news.
Payne Stewart

I'm fortunate now that I coach at Duke University and we've won a lot. I have some kids who haven't failed that much. But when they get to college, they're going to fail some time. That's a thing that I can help them the most with.
Mike Krzyzewski

Fortunate Translations

fortunate in Afrikaans is gelukkig
fortunate in Danish is lykkelig
fortunate in Dutch is gelukkig
fortunate in Finnish is onnellinen
fortunate in French is heureux
fortunate in Latin is fortunatus, fortunatus, felix felicis, beatus
fortunate in Norwegian is heldig
fortunate in Portuguese is feliz, afortunado
fortunate in Spanish is afortunado
fortunate in Swedish is lycklig, tursam

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