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[luhk-ee]

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adjective, luck·i·er, luck·i·est.

having or marked by good luck; fortunate: That was my lucky day.

happening fortunately: a lucky accident.

bringing or foretelling good luck, or supposed to do so: a lucky penny.

Origin:
1495–1505; luck + -y¹

Related forms

luck·i·ness, noun

Synonyms
1. favored. See fortunate. 3. auspicious, propitious, favorable.

Antonyms
1. unfortunate.

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Example Sentences

Consider yourself lucky if they reimburse you for your interview expenses at all.

They will be lucky now to see tourism projects of any kind.

There are times, when one is lucky enough to meet an individual who will forever impact your life.

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Consider yourself lucky if they reimburse you for your interview expenses at all.

They will be lucky now to see tourism projects of any kind.

There are times, when one is lucky enough to meet an individual who will forever impact your life.

Lucky people expect good things to happen, and when they do they embrace them.

If you have no idea what a stinkbug is then consider yourself lucky.

Recipe alert for those gardeners lucky enough to be able to grow rhubarb.

If your town has a lending library for tools, consider yourself lucky.

However, as you can imagine, one full year is a rather lucky working hypothesis.

The lucky ones, alas, are not ordinary customers-businesses and consumers-but other banks.

Read the full itinerary, and find out what ten lucky runners-up will receive.

But even in the face of adversity, lucky people turn bad breaks into good fortune.

He's lucky to be alive and sentient, but the trauma has taken its toll:.

If you're lucky enough to have leftover crab, there's no better use for it than this.

Lucky for all of us chumps still chucking dice at our dinner tables, he.

The turnaround from submitting an article to its publication can be a year or two, if you are lucky.

As for being a freelance hack-well, a lucky few may be famous enough to pick.

Musk deer roam throughout the ecoregion, but you would be lucky to see an elusive clouded leopard.

Lucky catch supports long-standing view of supernova shock wave.

They are the lucky ones, the fortunate few who still have a roof over their heads.

You're lucky that wood smoke isn't a trigger for you.

In case you're lucky enough to have avoided seeing these in person, here are some of the weirdest examples we've found.

And if she chooses geography over you, you are lucky to be rid of her without having to pay alimony/child support.

But even those patients lucky enough to receive a donor organ in time, and survive the transplant surgery, face more misery still.

We were extremely lucky because the end of the drama took place in the big open river flats where it was easy to view.

Lucky and his panel will have to address that question of.

Impressed at first sight the lucky shot turns into a pretty good picture editing.

We were incredibly lucky to be able to harvest all of our winter crops at the same time.

Simply leave a comment and we'll pick two lucky winners.

Diacon's department was lucky enough to buck this trend.

The bad news, though, is that the lucky survivors are tiny tropical insects that few people care about.

But the aquarium's brand-new floors weren't so lucky.

Most songwriters who have been lucky enough to have their song on the radio or be heard widely don't know anything about science.

Relatively few people are blessed with this capacity-or, anyway, been lucky enough to experience the pleasure.

The new kids on the block who got lucky with their first crop.

But clones that die young or deformed are lucky to get fine print.

It's not an offer, merely an invitation to apply for a fairly specialized post, which they will be lucky to fill.

Americans, lucky for them, need to work for only ten minutes.

In a spot where a young woman had recently had her arm ripped off by a slender-snouted croc, they were lucky to make it out alive.

Others after whom asteroids are named may not be so lucky.

With dozens of bullet and shrapnel wounds, he knew he was lucky to have survived.

For a few lucky researchers, these dreams become hypotheses.

They were lucky to have known their grandparents into adulthood.

Last month it said that a few lucky foreign banks, including central banks, could invest some of the yuan they.

I've been lucky enough to follow that obsession into adulthood.

Some brilliant freinds were not so lucky and remain hopelessly lost.

Lucky winter visitors can see the valley and rock formations dusted in snow, an incredible sight.

Many reckon the country will be lucky to escape further violence.

Quentin's life was spared that day, but many others are not so lucky.

But it seems to me that a great deal of evolution is a lucky chance that worked to advantage so it flourished.

Consider yourself lucky if you ever get to travel to this lovely area.

The first is that one culture's lucky sign is often another's omen of disaster.

They are also lucky that they don't have to travel too far to go skiing or snowboarding.

With or without psychosis, you and your perfectly normal friends are lucky to be high functioning and able to hold a jobs.

But others lucky enough not to have drowned have lived for several months after the parasite removes itself.

We're lucky to have a lander survive a short while before it is fried by high temperatures and corroded.

We were lucky to have a few businesses who took a risk.

Someone is getting lucky but likely not a married bloke.

She suddenly realizes how lucky she is to be so near the warmth of civilization.

There are so many levels to this simple true story, that if you see them all, then you are one of the lucky one's.

If a person is lucky enough to be equally yoked in marriage.

Further you might be lucky and require no more questions.

SciAm, you got lucky that this article is mostly accurate, but please you can do better than this.

Your ancestors were lucky to get enough to eat and they were lucky if they were fat enough to have babies and survive famines.

To probe deeper, they have to either get creative-or lucky.

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Dictionary.com Unabridged

noun, plural luck·ies. Scot.

a familiar name applied to an elderly woman, especially a grandmother; granny.

a familiar name applied to a woman, as one's wife or a barmaid.

Also, luckie.

Origin:
1710–20; luck + -y²

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World English Dictionary

lucky (ˈlʌkɪ)

—*adj* , luckier, luckiest
1.	having or bringing good fortune
2.	happening by chance, esp as desired

'luckily

—*adv*

'luckiness

—n

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Word Origin & History

lucky

c.1500, of persons; 1540s, of actions or objects;" from luck + -y (2). Related: Luckiest. Lucky break dates from 1938.

American Heritage

Idioms & Phrases

lucky

see born under a lucky star; strike it rich (lucky); thank one's lucky stars.

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