Word Meanings - FORTUITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Accident; chance; casualty. D. Forbes .

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORTUITY)

• Accident
• Chance
• fortuity
• disaster
• incident
• adventure
• casualty
• hazard
• contingency
• calamity
• misadventure
• mishap
• haphazard
• fortune
• random
• befoulment
• luck
• Coincidence
• concurrence
• correspondence
• contemporaneousness
• commensurateness
• harmony
• agreement
• consent

Related words: (words related to FORTUITY)

• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• CONSENTANEOUS
  Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n.
• CONCURRENCE
  1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion;
• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
  A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• FORTUNELESS
  Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
• INCIDENT
  Dependent upon, or appertaining to, another thing, called the principal. Incident proposition , a proposition subordinate to another, and introduced by who, which, whose, whom, etc.; as, Julius, whose surname was Cæsar, overcame Pompey. I. Watts.
• CALAMITY
  1. Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals. Note: The word calamity was first derived from calamus when the corn could not get out of
• RANDOMLY
  In a random manner.
• CHANCE
  Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance,
• COINCIDENCE
  1. The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley. 2. The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 3. Exact
• ADVENTURESOME
  Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• CHANCELLORSHIP
  The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
• CHANCEL
  lattices, crossbars. (The chancel was formerly inclosed with lattices That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. Hence, in modern use; All that part of a cruciform church which is
• CONSENTER
  One who consents.
• CONSENTANEITY
  Mutual agreement.
• INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
  Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion.
• PRECONSENT
  A previous consent.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• DISCONSENT
  To differ; to disagree; to dissent. Milton.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• DISADVENTURE
  Misfortune; mishap. Sir W. Raleigh.
• WHEEL OF FORTUNE
  A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.