FORTUITOUSLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fortuitously mean? 

• FORTUITOUSLY (adverb)
  The adverb FORTUITOUSLY has 1 sense:

1. by good fortune

  Familiarity information: FORTUITOUSLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FORTUITOUSLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

By good fortune

Synonyms:

as luck would have it; fortuitously; fortunately; luckily

Context example:

fortunately the weather was good

Pertainym:

fortuitous (occurring by happy chance)

 Context examples 

Fortuitously, the atmosphere of GJ 3470 b turned out to be mostly clear, with only thin hazes, enabling the scientists to probe deep into the atmosphere.

(Atmosphere of Midsize Planet Revealed by Hubble, Spitzer, NASA)

When analyzing the data, the scientists noticed that during its first Ganymede flyby, Galileo fortuitously crossed right over Ganymede’s auroral regions, as evidenced by the ions it observed raining down onto the surface of the moon’s polar cap.

(Fresh Results from NASA’s Galileo Spacecraft 20 Years On, NASA)

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)