Fortuitous

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Fortuitous

Pronounced:
<for-two-ah-tis>

Lucky. Lucky meeting.

My use:
It was a fortuitous day when we've met. I was lucky to meet someone like you.

Literary use:
It was from causes seemingly fortuitous . . . that all the mighty effects of the Reformation flowed.
--Robertson.

So as to throw a glancing and fortuitous light upon the whole
--Hazlitt.

Memory trick:
Fortuitous

Fortu (reminds of) = fortune
it (reminds of) = it
o (reminds of) = oh
us (reminds of) = us
fortune - it - oh - us

Listen: Fortuitous