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fortuitous
/fɔɹˈtuɪtəs/
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Stress TOO.
Follow oo with a separate light vowel, then an unstressed tus. Use four syllables.
4 syllables · Stress on syllable 2
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“Their meeting was a fortuitous coincidence.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does fortuitous mean?
adjective
- Happening by fortune or chance; accidental, coincidental.
- Happening by good fortune or success; fortunate, lucky.
- Happening independently of human control; uncontrollable.
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IPA pronunciation
/fɔɹˈtuɪtəs/
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The sporting man's sense of luck and chance, or of fortuitous necessity, is an inarticulate or inchoate animism.
While her living arrangements were so casual and fortuitous, Bowers’s studio was the one fixed thing in Thea’s life.
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One day, through some fortuitous circumstance, or rather by mistake, she takes it into her head to strike two blows.
At a later date the whole ship was through fortuitous circumstances exposed to certain disadvantageous conditions which rendered her incapable of further use.
To some extent there has been a popular notion that many of Edison's successes have been due to mere dumb fool luck--to blind, fortuitous "happenings."