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Webster 1913 Edition
Felicitous
Fe-lic′i-tous
,Adj.
Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skillful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate.
– Fe-lic′i-tous-ly
, adv.
Fe-lic′i-tous-ness
, Noun.
Webster 1828 Edition
Felicitous
FELIC'ITOUS
,Adj.
Definition 2024
felicitous
felicitous
English
Adjective
felicitous (comparative more felicitous, superlative most felicitous)
- Fitting; happening at the right time.
- Working out well.
- (linguistics, of a sentence or utterance) Semantically and pragmatically coherent, fitting in the context.
- This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous.
(Can we add an example for this sense?)
Synonyms
- (happening at the right time): appropriate, opportune, apt
- (working out well): fortunate, opportune
Antonyms
- (linguistics: semantically coherent): unfelicitous, grammatical/ungrammatical
Related terms
Derived terms
Translations
happening at the right time
working out well