Synonyms and Antonyms of fortuitous
1
coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedly
- your arrival just before the thunderstorm was fortuitous
convenient, opportune, seasonable, timely
unexpected, unforeseen, unlooked-for
accidental, chance, coincidental, serendipitous
auspicious, bright, encouraging, fair, heartening, hopeful, promising, propitious
benign, favorable, golden, good, halcyon
advantageous, beneficial, profitable
inconvenient, inopportune, unseasonable, untimely
anticipated, expected, foreseen
deliberate, intentional, planned
inauspicious, unpromising
calamitous, catastrophic, disastrous
2
happening by chance
- firmly believes that the creation of the universe was something other than just the fortuitous coming together of particles of matter
accidental, casual, chance, fluky (also flukey), inadvertent, incidental, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditated, unwitting
coincidental
freak, odd
aimless, arbitrary, desultory, haphazard, random
uncertain, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen
coerced, forced, involuntary
unconscious, unprompted
certain, destined, expected, fixed, foreordained, foreseeable, foreseen, inevitable, predestined, predetermined, predictable, preordained, prescribed, sure
conscious, freewill, knowing, unforced, voluntary, volunteer, willful (or wilful)
