Antonyms for fortunate
ˈfɔr tʃə nɪtfor·tu·nate

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1. fortunateadjective

   Antonyms:
   unlucky, unfortunate

   Synonyms:
   lucky

2. fortunateadjective

   Coming by good luck or favorable chance.

   Antonyms:
   unlucky, unfortunate

   Synonyms:
   lucky

3. fortunateadjective

   Bringing some good thing not foreseen as certain.

   Antonyms:
   unfortunate, unlucky

   Synonyms:
   lucky

4. fortunateadjective

   Presaging happiness.

   Antonyms:
   unlucky, unfortunate

   Synonyms:
   lucky

5. fortunateadjective

   Auspicious.

   Antonyms:
   unfortunate, unlucky

   Synonyms:
   lucky

6. fortunateadjective

   Receiving some unforeseen or unexpected good, or some good which was not dependent on one's own skill or efforts.

   Antonyms:
   unlucky, unfortunate

   Synonyms:
   lucky

7. fortunateadjective

   Lucky, favored by fortune.

   Synonyms:
   lucky

   Antonyms:
   unlucky, unfortunate

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1. fortunate

   A man is successful in any case if he achieves or gains what he seeks; he is known as a successful man if he has achieved or gained worthy objects of endeavor; he is fortunate or lucky if advantages have come to him without or beyond his direct planning or achieving. Lucky is the more common and colloquial, fortunate the more elegant word; fortunate is more naturally applied to the graver matters, as we speak of the fortunate, rather than the lucky, issue of a great battle; lucky more strongly emphasizes the element of chance, as when we speak of a lucky hit, a lucky guess, or of one as "born under a lucky star." Favored is used in a religious sense, implying that one is the object of divine favor. Happy, in this connection, signifies possessed of the means of happiness. One is said to be happy or prosperous whether his prosperity be the result of fortune or of achievement; prospered rather denotes the action of a superintending Providence.

   Antonyms:
   broken, crushed, fallen, ill-starred, miserable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, woful, wretched

   Synonyms:
   favored, happy, lucky, prospered, prosperous, successful

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1. fortunate

   Antonyms:
   unlucky, unfortunate, unhappy, infelicitous

   Synonyms:
   lucky, propitious, happy, felicitous, prosperous, auspicious, providential, successful

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. fortunateadjective

   having unexpected good fortune

   "other, less fortunate, children died"; "a fortunate choice"

   Antonyms:
   miserable, roofless, ill-fated, ill-starred, fatal, unhappy, pathetic, homeless, cursed, calamitous, unlucky, inauspicious, pitiable, regrettable, hapless, too bad, poor, pitiful, unfortunate, black, doomed, dispossessed, abject, disastrous, wretched, fateful, piteous, infelicitous, curst, ill-omened, downtrodden, misfortunate

   Synonyms:
   golden, rosy

2. fortunate, goldenadjective

   supremely favored

   "golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust"

   Antonyms:
   unhappy, ill-fated, unfortunate, curst, too bad, unlucky, roofless, hapless, cursed, misfortunate, piteous, regrettable, infelicitous, wretched, downtrodden, pathetic, abject, poor, pitiable, disastrous, fatal, ill-omened, homeless, inauspicious, black, calamitous, doomed, dispossessed, pitiful, fateful, miserable, ill-starred

   Synonyms:
   gilded, rosy, lucky, prosperous, aureate, golden, gold, gilt, halcyon, favourable, favorable

3. fortunate, rosyadjective

   presaging good fortune

   "she made a fortunate decision to go to medical school"; "rosy predictions"

   Antonyms:
   inauspicious, homeless, too bad, regrettable, ill-omened, roofless, miserable, doomed, unfortunate, curst, poor, hapless, black, fateful, infelicitous, fatal, disastrous, dispossessed, wretched, unhappy, pitiful, cursed, misfortunate, piteous, pitiable, abject, ill-fated, calamitous, unlucky, pathetic, downtrodden, ill-starred

   Synonyms:
   rose-cheeked, rosy, flushed, rosy-cheeked, golden, blushful, rose-colored

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1. fortunateadjective

   Antonyms:
   unfortunate

   Synonyms:
   lucky, favored, auspicious, favorable

How to use fortunate in a sentence?

1. Lincoln Chafee:

   Certainly the Republican Party changed and I never changed, as I became an independent my values never changed whether it's on fiscal responsibility, environment or using government tools to help the less fortunate.

2. Eric Lindros:

   I was very fortunate to have coaches, teammates, billets and parents who supported me throughout my career. it also takes a lot of luck to get to the NHL.

3. Bob Doll:

   Not owning Amazon has obviously hurt us this year, but we've been fortunate to own names that have made up the difference.

4. Kelvin Sampson:

   We’re fortunate that he was cleared and ready to play about the same time Tramon and Marcus went down, when we needed someone to step up and make a big shot, it was Ramon.

5. Randy Dill:

   What the money did for us was help open our eyes to some things that we take granted, this was a not-so-subtle reminder how fortunate we are and those things that we have, such as good health, are blessings that are so easy to ignore.

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