Word of the Day

Word of the Day for Monday, October 23, 2006

felicitous \fuh-LIS-uh-tuhs\, adjective:

1. Suitably applied or expressed; appropriate; apt.
2. Happy; delightful; marked by good fortune.


We do this sort of thing most weekends anyway, said a lean rebel with gunpowder smudges on his face and the felicitous name of Troy Cool.
-- Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic

I always have a pad of paper and a pencil within reach, to catch on the wing this turn of phrase which strikes me as felicitous, that idea which I hope to be able to examine more closely in the light of day.
-- Roger Martin du Gard, Lieutenant-Colonel de Maumort (translated by Timothy Crouse)

The word zakat itself suggests both piety and purity,underscoring the relationship of financial responsibility to righteous living. Like all Islamic requirements, its observance helps assure the giver of abetter chance for a felicitous reward in the hereafter.
-- Jane I. Smith, Islam in America

Felicitous is derived from Latin felicitas, "fertility, hence success, happiness," from felix, "fertile, successful, happy."