Library / English Dictionary

FORTUNATELY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

By good fortune

Example:

fortunately the weather was good

Synonyms:

as luck would have it; fortuitously; fortunately; luckily

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

unfortunately (by bad luck)

Pertainym:

fortunate (having unexpected good fortune)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The coal replied: “I fortunately sprang out of the fire, and if I had not escaped by sheer force, my death would have been certain,—I should have been burnt to ashes.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Fortunately, when oxygen levels were restored, most ocean creatures recovered some visual function, indicating that short-term periods of low oxygen may not cause permanent damage.

(Low ocean oxygen levels can blind sea creatures, National Science Foundation)

Fortunately, light pollution can be controlled by shielding lights to limit shine to the immediate area, reducing lighting to the minimum amount needed — or by simply turning them off.

(Milky Way now hidden from a third of humanity, NOAA)

Fortunately, you can live without a gallbladder.

(Gallbladder Diseases, NIH)

Fortunately for her, they had now reached the cottage, and the conversation could be continued no farther.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The two ladies were together in the breakfast-room, and, fortunately for him, Lady Bertram was on the very point of quitting it as he entered.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Fortunately for him, Highbury, including Randalls in the same parish, and Donwell Abbey in the parish adjoining, the seat of Mr. Knightley, comprehended many such.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter—often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter—in the eye.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

But, fortunately, Musgrave, who had begun to appreciate the meaning of my proceedings, and who was now as excited as myself, took out his manuscript to check my calculation.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nothing more alarming occurred than a fear, on Mrs. Allen's side, of having once left her clogs behind her at an inn, and that fortunately proved to be groundless.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)