English to French Meaning of felicitous - heureux

Felicitous :

heureux

adjective

approprié, correct, précis, apte, heureux, content, agréable, alcyon, brillant, imposant, sympathique, divertissant

Felicitous :: heureuxFelicitously :: heureusementInfelicitous :: malheureux

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Definitions of felicitous in English

Adjective(1) exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style(2) marked by good fortune

Examples of felicitous in English

(1) Conceptually that was quite accurate, even if it was not the most felicitous choice of words.(2) Well-known as a felicitous writer of amusing features, he was just hitting his stride as a serious and ambitious chronicler of the political convulsions seizing the Islamic world.(3) Finally, there remains the option of teaching taste - of training the bureaucracy in a felicitous mode of embodied expression and educating the polity to appreciate and respond to it.(4) This makes it a happy hunting ground for anyone with the felicitous habit of looking at the lighter side of life.(5) A felicitous mix of fun and entertainment it was.(6) Perhaps because ThÔö£┬«rÔö£┬┐se stands, to borrow Oscar Wilde's felicitous phrase (which he applied to himself), in symbolic relation to the culture of her age.(7) Despite the messiness inherent in natural systems, evolution has produced ├ö├ç├┐machines of extreme perfection,├ö├ç├û to use Darwin's felicitous phrase.(8) Or, to use the felicitous phrase of the late Northrop Frye, everything in the Scriptures is self-referential.(9) However, grimly amusing as this spectacle is, the political reality behind these appointments may be less felicitous .(10) If one were to consider the inputs from the existing school system into a child's scientific thinking, felicitous use of language, competence to search for information and to work out solutions, one would find them too little and too late.(11) Perhaps, then, we should concede that a better word, a more felicitous description, would have been merely ├ö├ç├┐dubious├ö├ç├û.(12) To adapt Benedict Anderson's felicitous phrase, hockey is one cultural activity through which Canadians are often said to imagine their community.(13) This gives the writer some of his most felicitous moments as he considers a series of eccentric individualists who gave their lives to the weather.(14) While there are glimpses of felicitous dialogue, there is no chemistry between these two characters to distract from the play's weak dramatic structure.(15) Has there ever been an economist with a more felicitous turn of phrase?(16) But his felicitous use of idiom gives no clue of this.

Related Phrases of felicitous

(1) felicitous ::

heureux

Related Phrases of felicitous

(1) felicitous ::

heureux

Synonyms

Adjective

1. apt ::

apte

2. favorable ::

favorable

3. happy ::

content

Antonyms

1. unpalatable ::

désagréable

2. unpleasant ::

désagréable

Different Forms

felicitous, felicitously, infelicitous

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