📚 Fortuitous, adjective. 🔉 /fɔːˈtjuːɪtəs/ 🇬🇧 ❓ Definition: Happening by chance rather than intention. ❗️ Examples: 1. The similarity between the paintings may not be simply fortuitous. 2. The ball went into the goal by a fortuitous ricochet. 3. On a similar theme, red is a lucky or fortuitous colour so wedding banquets in Japan tend to have red food included. 4. Violence itself becomes a means of reassurance, a fortuitous opportunity through which the strength of re-enforced steel is tested. 5. In our analysis, we took advantage of these fortuitous differences by incorporating weather as a categorical factor. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌀 @cambridge_dic