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单词 fortuitous
释义
fortuitous
adjective
formal
uk
/fɔːˈtʃuː.ɪ.təs/us
/fɔːrˈtuː.ə.t̬əs/
(of something that is toyouradvantage) notplanned,happeningbychance:
（有利的事）偶然发生的，碰巧的
Thetimingof themeetingiscertainlyfortuitous.这次会议的时机真是太巧了。
Thecollapseofitsrivalswas a fortuitousopportunityfor thecompany.竞争对手的倒闭给这家公司带来了意外的机会。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
happening by chance with no cause or reason
  • randomIt was a random encounter between two long-lost friends.
  • chanceA chance meeting brought them back together.
  • arbitraryIt seems like the decision to cancel such a successful TV programme was completely arbitrary.
  • haphazardHer cabinets were stuffed with a haphazard jumble of books, clothes, tins of soup, and papers.
  • coincidentalAny similarity between the characters in this book and real people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
  • inadvertentA good editor will catch and correct all inadvertent typos in a text.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Chance and randomness
  • accident
  • aleatory
  • arbitrarily
  • arbitrariness
  • arbitrary
  • even-money
  • fluke
  • fluky
  • fortuitously
  • fortuitousness
  • luck
  • luck intosomething
  • more by accident than designidiom
  • more by luck than judgmentidiom
  • non-purposive
  • randomized
  • randomly
  • randomness
  • serendipitous
  • stumble intosomething
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Related words

fortuitously
fortuitousness
(Definition offortuitousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

fortuitous| American Dictionary

fortuitous
adjective
us
/fɔrˈtu·ɪ·t̬əs/
(esp. of something toyouradvantage)happeningbychance:
We made a fortuitousescape.
Thediscoveryof thefileswas fortuitous.

fortuitously

adverbus
/fɔrˈtu·ɪ·t̬əs·li/
They had fortuitously been out of thehousewhen thefirestarted.
(Definition offortuitousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffortuitous

fortuitous
Teacher intervention should most often arise through effective and direct questioning about thefortuitousdiscoveries in the pupils' previous performances.
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Often,fortuitousmatches across different cases are exploited.
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The consensus achieved is, therefore, not an accident of compromise or afortuitouscoincidence but a genuine endorsement from all involved.
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The chance these genetic variations will address needs within a changing environment is at bestfortuitouscoincidence.
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The war-damaged argued that the undamaged had only preserved their assets by luck, given thefortuitousdistribution of wartime and post-war losses.
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Sarsens were perhaps deliberately selected because of natural markings upon them, or theirfortuitousresemblance to artificial or natural forms.
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Little attention is paid, however, to separating the possibility of adaptive host manipulation from incidental (iffortuitous) side-effects of infection.
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Or is it afortuitouseffect of the hand?
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And although the dialogue between mathematics and structuralism failed to be sustained, thisfortuitousencounter was the seed of a lasting cultural connection.
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The agreement between the experimental data and the structures may still be somewhatfortuitous.
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Even afortuitousconstellation of a balance of power, an iteration of interaction, and a long shadow of the future cannot guarantee co-operation.
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The main idea here is to contrast adaptations withfortuitousbenefits.
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But if the archduke's premature demise wasfortuitous, it was not just any event that could trigger a reaction that ended in war.
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Finally, although an effect may be afortuitouseffect of one adaptation, it may be a function or an adaptive effect of a different adaptation.
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One suchfortuitoussituation is on the terrace when sitting back-to-wall looking out to sea.
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