Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Admirably suited; apt.
- adjective Exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style.
- adjective Marked by happiness or good fortune.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Characterized by or conferring happiness or pleasure; highly pleasing.
- Well-chosen; appropriate: as, a felicitous manner; a felicitous situation; afelicitous reply.
- Synonyms Fortunate, etc. (see
happy ); apt, pertinent, opportune, well-put.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skillful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
fitting ; happening at the right time. - adjective
Working out well. - adjective linguistics, of a sentence or utterance
Semantically andpragmatically coherent, fitting in the context.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style
- adjective marked by good fortune
Etymologies
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Examples
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Instead, he rendered felicitas as "felicitee" which was already available, and he coined a felicitous new word for beatitudo: "wellfulness."
Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness Philip Reynolds 2010
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Instead, he rendered felicitas as "felicitee" which was already available, and he coined a felicitous new word for beatitudo: "wellfulness."
Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness Philip Reynolds 2010
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Instead, he rendered felicitas as "felicitee" which was already available, and he coined a felicitous new word for beatitudo: "wellfulness."
Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness Philip Reynolds 2010
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Instead, he rendered felicitas as "felicitee" which was already available, and he coined a felicitous new word for beatitudo: "wellfulness."
Philip Reynolds: The Biblical Definitions Of The Pursuit Of Happiness Philip Reynolds 2010
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In these passages not only is the thought singularly pure and noble, and the expression felicitous, but the actual metre represents almost the high-water mark of the post-Vergilian hexameter.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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The President of the British Empire Club of Providence, Rhode Island, Mr. Spencer Over, was the guest of the Club at this meeting and was introduced by President Mitchell in felicitous terms, the members applauding heartily as Mr. Over bowed his thanks.
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A performative that "works" is called felicitous and one that does not is called infelicitous.
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I had to look up the word "felicitous", I'll add it to my flashcard program if I remember it!
Interview with Malin Sandström x00c5;ka 2008
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We may be spared, hereafter, the infliction of numberless "felicitous" conjectures, on which the following is scarcely a parody.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 099, March, 1876 Various
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The book is hard to put down because of this kind of felicitous prose, but it is a long book and takes a long time to read.
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