3. lucky, fortunate, happy, felicitous, providential; blessed, favored, in luck, born under a lucky star, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth, blessed with luck.
fortuity, n. 1. chance, mere chance, happy chance, happenstance, serendipity; accident, coincidence, contingency, contingence; uncertainty, potluck, blind faith; luck, good luck, Lady Luck, fortune or Fortune, good fortune, wheels of fortune, heads or tails, cast or throw or toss of the dice; fate, destiny; vicissitudes, ups and downs, fickle finger of fate, way things fall, Inf. the breaks, Inf. how the cookie crumbles, Inf. how the ball bounces.
2. fluke, chance event, chance occurrence, one in a million, long shot, twist of fate; happening, Archaic. hap, hazard; freak accident, casualty.
fortunate, adj. 1. lucky, fortuitous, happy, felicitous, Scot. and North Eng., Irish Eng. sonsy; favored, blessed, blessed with luck, in luck, born under a lucky star, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth; successful, crowned with success, prosperous, halcyon, rich, well-off; flourishing, thriving, booming, succeeding, out in front, ahead of the game, on top, SI. on top of the heap.
2. auspicious, propitious, providential, favorable, advantageous, ripe; opportune, seasonable, timely, well-timed, just in time, convenient; encouraging, promising, full of promise, of promise; rosy, bright, fair, golden, benign, benignant.
fortune, n. 1. (all as determined by wealth)
position, place, situation; station, status, standing, footing, rank; level, grade, class; conditions, circumstances.
2. capital, assets, worth; income, money, revenue; stock, substance, possessions, means; estate, property; wealth, material wealth, treasure.
3. riches, great wealth; affluence, opulence, opulen-cy, easy circumstances, SI. easy street; mint, gold mine.
4. chance, mere chance, happy chance, happenstance, fortuity, serendipity; accident, coincidence, contingency, contingence; uncertainty, potluck, blind faith; luck, wheels of fortune or chance, Fortune's wheel, heads or tails, cast or toss or throw of the dice; vicissitudes, ups and downs, fickle finger of fate, way things fall, Inf. the breaks, Inf. how the cookie crumbles, Inf. how the ball bounces.
5. Often
fortunes prospect, promise, expectation, anticipation; story, life, life story, story of one's life, biography, memoir; adventures, escapades, experiences.
6. destiny, fate, lot, cup, portion, die, doom, Chiefly Scot. weird; predestination, kismet, God's will, stars, planets; end, destination, final lot.
7. Chance, Fortune, Lady or Dame Fortune, For-tuna, Luck, Lady Luck.
8. success, successfulness, prosperity, prosperousness; felicity, good luck, good fortune, happy fortune; fortunateness, luckiness.
fortuneteller, n. seer, soothsayer, oracle, prophet, prognosticator, augur, foreteller, foreseer; diviner, geomancer, (in ancient Rome) haruspex; prophetess, sibyl, witch; astrologer, horoscoper, astromancer, as-troalchemist, Chaldean, Obs. astrolog, star diviner, stargazer.
fortunetelling, n. augury, prognostication, prophecy, prediction, prefigurement, vaticination, soothsaying, foretelling, forecasting, Obs. hariolation, Obs., Rare. fatidency, Obs., Rare, mantology; chiromancy, palmistry, palm-reading; divination, geomancy, sortilege, (in ancient Rome) haruspicy; astrology, stargazing. See - divination (def. 2).