Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Lucky   /lˈəki/   Listen
Lucky

adjective
(compar. luckier; superl. luckiest)
1.
Occurring by chance.  "A lucky guess"
2.
Having or bringing good fortune.  "A lucky man"  Antonym: unlucky.
3.
Presaging or likely to bring good luck.  Synonyms: favorable, favourable, golden, prosperous.  "Lucky stars" , "A prosperous moment to make a decision"



Related searches:



WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Lucky" Quotes from Famous Books



... turned northward into Moravia where 1805 Francis II and Alexander I had gathered a large army of Austrians and Russians. On 2 December, 1805, the anniversary of his coronation as emperor,—his "lucky" day, as he termed it,—Napoleon overwhelmed the allies at Austerlitz in one of the greatest ...
— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes

... motions is so little to be depended on that I never know when I have him; maybe he'll stop going through to Boston, and maybe no, and I don't know when; so anyhow I had to have a fire made and this room all ready; and ain't it lucky it was ready for you to-night!—and now he ain't here you can have the great chair all to yourself and make yourself comfortable—we can keep warmer here, I guess, than you can in the country," said ...
— Queechy • Susan Warner

... all I know about this neck of the woods, either, Steve Packard. Maybe it's lucky for you and for me too that you told me all this. I'll take you into Drop Off Valley to-night, and Blenham and Yellow Barbee can watch all they please and never guess we're there. For there's a way up that not even Blenham knows and where they will never look for ...
— Man to Man • Jackson Gregory

... these beasts had been lions and tigers, the more hungry they grew the more anxious they would have been to get at us. It's lucky all animals ...
— A Voyage round the World - A book for boys • W.H.G. Kingston

... rejuvenation for the five hundred lucky ones, the select ones, that can be treated each year? Tough, independent Senator Dan Fowler fights a one-man battle against the clique that seeks perpetual power and perpetual youth, in this hard-hitting novel by Alan E. Nourse. Why did ...
— Martyr • Alan Edward Nourse


More quotes...



Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com