Usually means: Accidental, happening by lucky chance.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word fortuitous:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. fortuitous: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. fortuitous: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. fortuitous: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. fortuitous: Collins English Dictionary
  5. fortuitous: Vocabulary.com
  6. Fortuitous, fortuitous: Wordnik
  7. fortuitous: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. fortuitous: Wiktionary
  9. fortuitous: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. fortuitous: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. fortuitous: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Fortuitous, fortuitous: Dictionary.com
  13. fortuitous: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. fortuitous: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Fortuitous: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. fortuitous: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. fortuitous: Rhymezone
  18. fortuitous: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. fortuitous: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. fortuitous: Free Dictionary
  21. fortuitous: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. fortuitous: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  23. fortuitous: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fortuitous: Legal dictionary

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fortuitous: A Word A Day

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. fortuitous: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Happening by chance; coincidental, accidental.
adjective:  Happening by a lucky chance; lucky or fortunate.
adjective:  (law) Happening independently of human will.

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    gold,     emerald,     jade,     sapphire,     amethyst,     ruby,     turquoise,     coral,     lavender,     periwinkle



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