fortune
fortune is a 7-letter English word with 12 senses as noun and intransitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident; luck; hap; also, the personified or deified power regarded as determining human success, apportioning happiness and unhappiness, and distributing arbitrarily or fortuitously the lots of life.
- noun. That which befalls or is to befall one; lot in life, or event in any particular undertaking; fate; destiny; as, to tell one's fortune.
- noun. That which comes as the result of an undertaking or of a course of action; good or ill success; especially, favorable issue; happy event; success; prosperity as reached partly by chance and partly by effort.
- noun. Wealth; large possessions; large estate; riches; as, a gentleman of fortune.
- noun. To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to.
- noun. To provide with a fortune.
- noun. To presage; to tell the fortune of.
- intransitive verb. To fall out; to happen.
- noun. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
"bad luck caused his downfall"
"we ran into each other by pure chance"
- noun. an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome
"it was my good luck to be there"
"they say luck is a lady"
- noun. a large amount of wealth or prosperity
- noun. your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)
"whatever my fortune may be"
"deserved a better fate"
Synonyms
chance, hazard, luck, circumstances, destiny, fate, lot, portion
Common word forms
fortuned, fortunes, fortuning, fortuneless
Words from these letters
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