| 单词 | felicitous |
| 释义 | felicitous (once / 4948 pages) 1adj 2adj Felicitous describes something that's pleasantly apt or fitting. Felicitous words you write on your friend's birthday card are the ones that perfectly suit the occasion and make her happy when she reads them. Felicitous can mean "appropriate," but it also describes something that's lucky. When you plan a trip to the amusement park and it turns out that the sun is shining, that’s felicitous. If you need to mail a package by a certain date and you make it to the post office just in time, that’s also felicitous. The Latin root of felicitous is felix, "happy or lucky." WORD FAMILYfelicitous: felicitously, felicitousness+/felicitate: felicitated, felicitates, felicitating, felicitation/felicitation: felicitations/felicity: felicitate, felicities, felicitous, infelicity/infelicitous: infelicitously/infelicity: infelicities, infelicitous USAGE EXAMPLESBut the show, which Mr. Glover created, doesn’t obsess over that premise nearly so much as explore its felicitous human topography. New York Times(Oct 19, 2016) Two years later, the sparkling white building on the river marks a fresh start for Ms. Levete, and MAAT’s seed shape seems felicitous. New York Times(Oct 04, 2016) With that, we’ve crossed over from tragedy to classic comedy, and it’s been a felicitous journey. Seattle Times(Sep 15, 2016) 1 adj exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style 2a felicitous speaker Syn|Ant congratulatory, gratulatory expressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortune happy, well-chosenwell expressed and to the point well-turned(of language) aptly and pleasingly expressed well-wishingextending good wishes for success happyenjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure infelicitous not appropriate in application; defective awkward, clumsy, cumbersome, ill-chosen, inapt, ineptnot elegant or graceful in expression unfortunateunsuitable or regrettable unhappyexperiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent adj marked by good fortune a felicitous life Syn happy fortunate having unexpected good fortune |
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