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fortuitous

adjective

1 fortuitous

Having no cause or apparent cause:
— Fortuitous encounters--strange accidents of fortune.

synonyms: causeless, uncaused.

Roget 6: derived from without; objective; extrinsic, extrinsical; extraneous etc. (foreign) 57; modal, adventitious; ascititious, adscititious; incidental, accidental, ... show more

Roget 156: casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; random, statistical; possible ... show more

Roget 621: fortuitous etc. 156; unintentional, unintended; accidental; not meant; undesigned, purposed; unpremeditated etc. 612; unforeseen, uncontemplated, ... show more

2 fortuitous

Occurring by happy chance.


Moby thesaurus: accessory, accidental, additional, adscititious, adventitious, aleatory, appurtenant, ascititious, auxiliary, casual, causeless, chance, chancy, circumstantial, collateral, contingent, destinal, dicey, extra, fatal ... show more.

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