felicitous
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felicitous
- /fəˈlɪsɪtəs/ US, UK
Where it comes from
From felicity + -ous.
adjective more felicitous · most felicitous
- Appropriate, apt, fitting. Walter again pursued his way, lost in a very mixed reverie; sometimes writhing under an idea of degradation, in thus making a trade of his talents; and then, again, somewhat consoled by the pride of art; for how many felicitous and stinging epigrams arose in his mind!
- Auspicious, fortunate, lucky. There are a variety of charms, of various kinds, for which there are no names and no particular uses; but they are considered felicitous, and are therefore worn by the poorer classes, who cannot buy the more valuable charms.
- Causing happiness or pleasure. The same chronicler [John Capgrave] makes Henry of Agincourt die a day earlier than he really did, apparently only for the purpose of manufacturing a sort of coincidence. 'His end fell well on the feast of Saint Felix, for he was felicitous in all things—felicitous in endowing the church, felicitous
- Of a sentence or utterance: semantically and pragmatically coherent; fitting in the context. This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous.
