Definition: presaging good fortune
Usage: she made a fortunate decision to go to medical school; rosy predictions
Similar words: auspicious
Definition: auguring favorable circumstances and good luck
Usage: an auspicious beginning for the campaign
Definition: supremely favored
Usage: golden lads and girls all must / like chimney sweepers come to dust
Definition: highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace)
Usage: our blessed land; the blessed assurance of a steady income
Synonyms: fortunate
Definition: having unexpected good fortune
Usage: other, less fortunate, children died; a fortunate choice
Similar words: better off
Definition: in a more fortunate or prosperous condition
Usage: she would have been better off if she had stuck with teaching; is better off than his classmate
Similar words: felicitous, happy
Definition: marked by good fortune
Usage: a felicitous life; a happy outcome
Similar words: fortuitous
Definition: occurring by happy chance
Usage: profits were enhanced by a fortuitous drop in the cost of raw materials
Definition: resulting favorably
Usage: it's a good thing that I wasn't there; it is good that you stayed; it is well that no one saw you; all's well that ends well
Similar words: heaven-sent, miraculous, providential
Definition: peculiarly fortunate or appropriate; as if by divine intervention
Usage: a heaven-sent rain saved the crops; a providential recovery
Similar words: lucky
Definition: occurring by chance
Usage: a lucky escape; a lucky guess
Similar words: well-off
Definition: fortunately situated
Usage: doesn't know when he's well-off