felicitous

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /fəˈlɪsɪtəs/

Etymology

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

Adjective

felicitous (comparative more felicitous, superlative most felicitous)

1. Well-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

Dutch: gepast (nl), passend (nl), opportuun (nl)

working out well

linguistics: semantically and pragmatically coherent

Dutch: gepast (nl), passend (nl)