felicitous

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Appropriate, apt, fitting.

   “Walter again pursued his way, lost in a very mixed reverie; sometimes writhing under an idea of degradation, in thus making a trade of his talents; and then, again, somewhat consoled by the pride of art; for how many felicitous and stinging epigrams arose in his mind!”

2. sıfat Auspicious, fortunate, lucky.

   “There are a variety of charms, of various kinds, for which there are no names and no particular uses; but they are considered felicitous, and are therefore worn by the poorer classes, who cannot buy the more valuable charms.”

3. sıfat Causing happiness or pleasure.

   “He is looking the very picture of health, and on the whole his dreams are felicitous. For instance, last night he dreamt that he had been buying strawberries as large as gourds. It proves the magnificent vitality of his dreams.”

4. sıfat Of a sentence or utterance: semantically and pragmatically coherent; fitting in the context.

   “This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous.”