On this page you'll find 10+ example sentences with Fortuitous. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as uncaused or unintended and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Fortuitous meaning
- Happening by chance; coincidental, accidental.
- Happening by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.
- Happening independently of human will.
Synonyms of Fortuitous
Using Fortuitous
- The main meaning on this page is: Happening by chance; coincidental, accidental. | Happening by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate. | Happening independently of human will.
- Useful related words include: causeless, uncaused, unintended, fortunate.
- In the example corpus, fortuitous often appears in combinations such as: fortuitous that, the fortuitous, was fortuitous.
Context around Fortuitous
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 6 start, 8 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Fortuitous
- In this selection, "fortuitous" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, ironically, bit, shaun, circumstances and jolt stand out and add context to how "fortuitous" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a bit fortuitous and a fortuitous shaun johnson. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "fortuitous" sits close to words such as abington, abled and adorno, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with fortuitous
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Hmmm, the timing is fortuitous. (5 words)
Our scores were a bit fortuitous. (6 words)
That they found it is fortuitous, given their precise criteria. (10 words)
United's midfield was overrun in the fortuitous 1-0 win over Wolves and a post-match graphic of the players' average positions showed how isolated defensive midfielder Casemiro was, with the other members of the front six pushed higher up. (41 words)
Sometimes a piece of music we’ve known for decades (or, in the case of one reader’s story about a song, about as long as we can remember) boomerangs back into our lives with poetic and fortuitous timing. (39 words)
Buoyed by that fortuitous jolt, Cratloe could have out the result beyond doubt only for further goal chances for Podge Collins and Diarmuid Ryan to agonisingly flash wide of the far right post. (33 words)
Example sentences (20)
A fortuitous Shaun Johnson try with 13 minutes to go was the key moment in a tense 16-14 win for the Warriors over Canterbury at Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland.
Arsenal would level in fortuitous circumstances as, deep into stoppage time, Trossard’s shot took a deflection off Akanji, wrong-footing Ortega and sending the Arsenal fans behind the goal into raptures.
Buoyed by that fortuitous jolt, Cratloe could have out the result beyond doubt only for further goal chances for Podge Collins and Diarmuid Ryan to agonisingly flash wide of the far right post.
Cartwright had to be alert to deny Maddox following a fortuitous bounce of the ball, but Grimsby’s shot-stopper was out quickly to smother.
For Lukács, irrationalism, including its ultimate coalescence with Nazism, was no fortuitous development, but rather a product of capitalism itself.
He said it was "very fortuitous" that the light of a galaxy in the distant universe travelled extremely close to this black hole, which is roughly two billion light years from Earth.
The fashion accessory was born of a fortuitous encounter on a London-bound flight in the 1980s with the then-head of Hermes, Jean-Louis Dumas.
The impact event and Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum were, ironically, fortuitous for humans: They paved the way for our ancestors.
Then, years later and seemingly out of nowhere, a fortuitous correspondence appeared.
The PNC, under the guise of the Coalition, was given a fortuitous opportunity in 2015 to make amends for its destructive and evil past, but deliberately squandered it because of greed.
United's midfield was overrun in the fortuitous 1-0 win over Wolves and a post-match graphic of the players' average positions showed how isolated defensive midfielder Casemiro was, with the other members of the front six pushed higher up.
Joel's decisions sent Midge to the Gaslight one fortuitous night, leading her to a new career path.
Mr Dawson said it was "fortuitous" that Mr Yousaf had been able to supply the inquiry with his own WhatsApp messages.
Our scores were a bit fortuitous.
Sometimes a piece of music we’ve known for decades (or, in the case of one reader’s story about a song, about as long as we can remember) boomerangs back into our lives with poetic and fortuitous timing.
That they found it is fortuitous, given their precise criteria.
The meetings started in the 1970s, as many fortuitous things do in this town, over steaming bowls of red beans and rice.
The rare artifacts date back to around 500 BCE—and the detectorist's second go was somehow just as fortuitous.
Boyle’s bad fortune that day appeared to be fortuitous.
Hmmm, the timing is fortuitous.
Common combinations with fortuitous
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- fortuitous that 4×
- the fortuitous 4×
- was fortuitous 4×
- is fortuitous 4×
- fortuitous for 3×
- and fortuitous 3×
- fortuitous to 3×
- in fortuitous 2×
- that fortuitous 2×
- of fortuitous 2×