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What does fortuitous mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word fortuitous? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Happening by chance; coincidental or accidental.
  2. Happening by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.
  3. (law) Happening independently of human will.
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As it turned out, it was rather fortuitous that I had stopped to have a short discussion with Irving.
They might have been, too, but for a rather fortuitous penalty awarded with nine minutes remaining.
Violence itself becomes a means of reassurance, a fortuitous opportunity through which the strength of re-enforced steel is tested.
He laughed to himself as he walked, thinking how lucky he'd been that his prank had had such fortuitous results.
On a similar theme, red is a lucky or fortuitous colour so wedding banquets in Japan tend to have red food included.
If such evidence surfaces, watch out for another fortuitous destruction of those records.

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