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Webster 1913 Edition


Felicitous

Fe-lic′i-tous

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Adj.
Characterized by felicity; happy; prosperous; delightful; skillful; successful; happily applied or expressed; appropriate.
Fe-lic′i-tous-ly
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adv.
Fe-lic′i-tous-ness
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Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition


Felicitous

FELIC'ITOUS

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Adj.
Very happy; prosperous; delightful.

Definition 2024


felicitous

felicitous

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Adjective

felicitous (comparative more felicitous, superlative most felicitous)

  1. Fitting; happening at the right time.
  2. Working out well.
  3. (linguistics, of a sentence or utterance) Semantically and pragmatically coherent, fitting in the context.
    This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous.

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