Qualities

Synonyms for fortuitous

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 5, Summit · 1 sense · adjective

The senseadjectiveTier 5, SummitQualities

having no cause or apparent cause

Fortuitous encounters and strange accidents of fortune.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

causeless

Same sentence, swapped: Causeless encounters and strange accidents of fortune.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for fortuitous as it is used in the sentence above.

supplementary
subsidiary
superfluous

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