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providentialadjective coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedlywinning the lottery could not have come at a more providential time for the recently laid-off worker fluky(also flukey), fortuitous, fortunate, happy, heaven-sent, lucky convenient, opportune, seasonable, timelyunexpected, unforeseen, unlooked-foraccidental, chance, coincidental, serendipitousauspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitiousbenign, favorable, golden, good, halcyonadvantageous, beneficial, profitable hapless, ill-fated, ill-starred, luckless, star-crossed, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky inconvenient, inopportune, unseasonable, untimelyanticipated, expected, foreseendeliberate, intentional, plannedinauspicious, unpromisingcalamitous, catastrophic, disastrous lucky, fortunate, happy, providential mean meeting with unforeseen success.lucky stresses the agency of chance in bringing about a favorable result.won because of a lucky bounce fortunate suggests being rewarded beyond one's deserts.fortunate in my investments happy combines the implications of lucky and fortunate with stress on being blessed.a series of happy accidents providential more definitely implies the help or intervention of a higher power.a providential change in the weather in 1648 |