fortunate
adjectiveHow many syllables in fortunate?
There are 3 syllables in the word fortunate.How to pronounce fortunate:
Definition of fortunate:
- fortunate (adjective):
- having good luck
- having unexpected good fortune.
- bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain auspicious
Synonyms for fortunate:
born with a silver spoon in your mouth
bright
coincidental
convenient
favorable
favoured
felicitous
flukey
fortuitous
golden
good
happy
having a charmed life
heaven-sent
in luck
jammy
lucky
miraculous
on a roll
privileged
promising
providential
rosy
successful
unexpected
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Antonyms for fortunate:
abject
adverse
afflicted
awful
awkward
burdened
calamitous
cataclysmal
cataclysmic
catastrophic
cursed
damning
desperate
detrimental
dire
disadvantageous
disastrous
distressful
distressing
dreadful
forlorn
hapless
harsh
heartbreaking
hopeless
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Here are some other common 3-syllable words.
- unable
- desolate
- convincing
- fatigued
- boisterous
- whereabouts
- whomever
- deligate
- recklessly
- scrumptious
- gluttonous
- embitter
- thoughtfully
- exacted
- amusement
- acumen
- hesitance
- wonderous
- syllable
- mantelpiece
- nautical
- patriarch
- example
- gallantly
- astonished
- filleted
- spectacle
- kaffiyeh
- relatives
- enquiry
- studious
- stepping-stone
- ululate
- horribly
- hopefully
- flagrantly
- maximize
- impending
- displaying
- blossoming
- befallen
- mesmerized
- secluded
- overlooked
- fulfilling
- dreamily
- speakable
- flamboyant
- deflected
- correctly
- … more
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