felicitous

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fəˈlɪsɪtəs/

Etymology

From Latin felicitās (“luck”), from Latin felix (“lucky”).

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.

Synonyms

• (happening at the right time): appropriate, opportune, apt
• (working out well): fortunate, opportune

Antonyms

• (linguistics: semantically coherent): unfelicitous, grammatical/ungrammatical

Related terms

• felicity

Derived terms

• felicitously
• felicitousness
• unfelicitous

Translations

happening at the right time

• Bulgarian: уместен (bg) (umesten)
• Dutch: gepast (nl), passend (nl), opportuun (nl)

• Spanish: oportuno (es)

working out well

• Bulgarian: подходящ (bg) (podhodjašt), удачен (bg) (udačen)

linguistics: semantically and pragmatically coherent

• Dutch: gepast (nl), passend (nl)