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LUCKILY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
By good fortune
Example:
fortunately the weather was good
Synonyms:
as luck would have it; fortuitously; fortunately; luckily
Classified under:
Antonym:
unluckily (by bad luck)
Pertainym:
lucky (having or bringing good fortune)
Context examples:
But one day, I took a thick cudgel, and threw it with all my strength so luckily, at a linnet, that I knocked him down, and seizing him by the neck with both my hands, ran with him in triumph to my nurse.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
She would not, upon any account, mention her having met with him the second time; luckily Mary did not much attend to their having passed close by him in their earlier walk, but she would have felt quite ill-used by Anne's having actually run against him in the passage, and received his very polite excuses, while she had never been near him at all; no, that cousinly little interview must remain a perfect secret.
(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)
If I had not luckily thought of standing up with you I could not have got out of it.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The lock yielded to her hand, and, luckily, with no sullen sound that could alarm a human being.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
But, luckily, he came back again in ten minutes' time, and then we all set out.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“The old woman has destroyed all my brethren in fire and smoke; she seized sixty of them at once, and took their lives. I luckily slipped through her fingers.”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Luckily, the full moon of March 9 will be in perfect conversation with Mars and Jupiter in your fourth house of home.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
After some time spent in saying little or doing less, Lady Middleton sat down to Cassino, and as Marianne was not in spirits for moving about, she and Elinor luckily succeeding to chairs, placed themselves at no great distance from the table.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Luckily there is no distinction of dress nowadays to tell tales, but—but—but Yours affectionately.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
The general, between his cocoa and his newspaper, had luckily no leisure for noticing her; but to the other two her distress was equally visible.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
