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📚 Felicitous, adjective. 🔉 /fɪˈlɪsɪtəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Well chosen or suited to the circumstances. ❗️ Examples: 1. A felicitous phrase. 2. Despite the messiness inherent in natural systems, evolution has produced ‘machines of extreme perfection,’ to use Darwin's felicitous phrase. 3. Has there ever been an economist with a more felicitous turn of phrase? 4. Perhaps because Thérèse stands, to borrow Oscar Wilde's felicitous phrase (which he applied to himself), in symbolic relation to the culture of her age. 5. To adapt Benedict Anderson's felicitous phrase, hockey is one cultural activity through which Canadians are often said to imagine their community. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic