serendipitousadj.

/sɛrɛnˈdɪpɪtəs/

Etymology: < serendipit- (in serendipity n.) + -ous suffix.

a. Of persons: having the faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > [adjective] > making happy discoveries by chance

serendipitous1958

1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Aug. 468/4 In the matter of adventure Miss de Banke was serendipitous to the nth degree.

1968 ‘E. McBain’ Fuzz ix. 146 La Brisca seemed to be a serendipitous type who led them on a jolly excursion halfway across the city.

1975 Reader's Digest Oct. 150/2 And all for the best, too, as serendipitous San Diegans gladly tell you.

b. (The more usual sense.) Applied to discoveries, meetings, etc., of this kind.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > favoured or attended by good fortune > of the nature of good fortune

luckya1547

fool-happy1590

providential1719

jammy1853

serendipitous1965

1965 J. Wakefield Death the Sure Physician 50 It's rather fortunate that I should come across a chap with similar interests…distinctly serendipitous, in fact.

1971 Nature 20 Aug. 538/2 This suggestion was confirmed by the isolation of a stable tricarbonyliron complex of tetraphenylbutadiene by a serendipitous method (many of the best discoveries in the field have been made by chance).

1979 Amer. Speech 1978 53 272 As among these three systems, the girls couldn't have cared less, Yerke's suggestion was serendipitous.

Derivatives

serenˈdipitously adv.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adverb] > fortunately or luckily

happilya1375

graciouslya1382

blessedlyc1420

happenlyc1450

faira1475

luckly1538

fortunately1548

fortunably?1567

luckily1590

providently1600

comiclya1633

providentially1648

comically1717

well-favouredly1773

serendipitously1969

good-enough1982

the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > [adverb] > making happy discoveries by chance

serendipitously1969

1969 C. C. Winter Pract. Urol. vii. 211 Prostatitis is one of the most common of urologic disorders. It may be symptomless and discovered serendipitously in a routine, two glass urinalysis in which the first specimen shows some white blood cells or a few more than in the second glass.

1974 Daily Tel. 29 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 16/3 We can imagine Hodder meeting Stoughton..and their discovering, serendipitously, a mutual interest in books.

1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Nov. 1275/4 He had the knack of always being serendipitously on hand when a tenement caught fire.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

单词	serendipitous
释义	serendipitousadj. /sɛrɛnˈdɪpɪtəs/ Etymology: < serendipit- (in serendipity n.) + -ous suffix. a. Of persons: having the faculty of making happy and unexpected discoveries by accident. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > [adjective] > making happy discoveries by chance serendipitous1958 1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Aug. 468/4 In the matter of adventure Miss de Banke was serendipitous to the nth degree. 1968 ‘E. McBain’ Fuzz ix. 146 La Brisca seemed to be a serendipitous type who led them on a jolly excursion halfway across the city. 1975 Reader's Digest Oct. 150/2 And all for the best, too, as serendipitous San Diegans gladly tell you. b. (The more usual sense.) Applied to discoveries, meetings, etc., of this kind. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > favoured or attended by good fortune > of the nature of good fortune luckya1547 fool-happy1590 providential1719 jammy1853 serendipitous1965 1965 J. Wakefield Death the Sure Physician 50 It's rather fortunate that I should come across a chap with similar interests…distinctly serendipitous, in fact. 1971 Nature 20 Aug. 538/2 This suggestion was confirmed by the isolation of a stable tricarbonyliron complex of tetraphenylbutadiene by a serendipitous method (many of the best discoveries in the field have been made by chance). 1979 Amer. Speech 1978 53 272 As among these three systems, the girls couldn't have cared less, Yerke's suggestion was serendipitous. Derivatives serenˈdipitously adv. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adverb] > fortunately or luckily happilya1375 graciouslya1382 blessedlyc1420 happenlyc1450 faira1475 luckly1538 fortunately1548 fortunably?1567 luckily1590 providently1600 comiclya1633 providentially1648 comically1717 well-favouredly1773 serendipitously1969 good-enough1982 the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > [adverb] > making happy discoveries by chance serendipitously1969 1969 C. C. Winter Pract. Urol. vii. 211 Prostatitis is one of the most common of urologic disorders. It may be symptomless and discovered serendipitously in a routine, two glass urinalysis in which the first specimen shows some white blood cells or a few more than in the second glass. 1974 Daily Tel. 29 Nov. (Colour Suppl.) 16/3 We can imagine Hodder meeting Stoughton..and their discovering, serendipitously, a mutual interest in books. 1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 14 Nov. 1275/4 He had the knack of always being serendipitously on hand when a tenement caught fire. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adj.1958
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