Word Meanings - FORTUNATELY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily.

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• FORTUNATE
  1. 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. 2. Receiving same unforeseen
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• FORTUNATELY
  In a fortunate manner; luckily; successfully; happily.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• HAPPILY
  1. By chance; peradventure; haply. Piers Plowman. 2. By good fortune; fortunately; luckily. Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown. Waller. 3. In a happy manner or state; in happy circumstances; as, he lived happily with his wife. 4. With
• MANNERLINESS
  The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.
• FORTUNATENESS
  The condition or quality of being fortunate; good luck; success; happiness.
• MANNERED
  1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style
• LUCKILY
  In a lucky manner; by good fortune; fortunately; -- used in a good sense; as, they luckily escaped injury.
• MANNER
  manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner
• MANNERCHOR
  A German men's chorus or singing club.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• OVERMANNER
  In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif.
• ILL-MANNERED
  Impolite; rude.
• MISFORTUNATE
  Producing misfortune.
• WELL-MANNERED
  Polite; well-bred; complaisant; courteous. Dryden.
• UNLUCKILY
  In an unlucky manner.
• PLUCKILY
  In a plucky manner.
• INFORTUNATE
  Unlucky; unfortunate. Shak. "A most infortynate chance." Howell. - In*for"tu*nate*ly, adv.