felicitous
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."
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exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style“a felicitous speaker”synonyms:congratulatory, gratulatoryexpressive of sympathetic pleasure or joy on account of someone's success or good fortunewell-turned(of language) aptly and pleasingly expressedwell-wishingextending good wishes for successhappyenjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasureantonyms:infelicitousnot appropriate in application; defectiveunfortunateunsuitable or regrettableunhappyexperiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
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marked by good fortune
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