English Dictionary

felicitous

IPA（発音記号）

/fəˈlɪsɪtəs/

形容詞

Appropriate, apt, fitting. / Auspicious, fortunate, lucky. / Causing happiness or pleasure. / (linguistics) Of a sentence or utterance: semantically and pragmatically coherent; fitting in the context.

日本語の意味

適切な、ふさわしい（状況や文脈に合致する） / 縁起の良い、幸運な / 幸福や喜びを引き起こす / （言語学的用法で）意味論的・語用論的に整合が取れている、文脈に適した

His felicitous choice of words made the apology more sincere.

彼の適切な言葉遣いが謝罪をより誠実なものにした。

意味（1）

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!

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

Causing happiness or pleasure.

The same chronicler [John Capgrave] makes Henry of Agincourt die a day earlier than he really did, apparently only for the purpose of manufacturing a sort of coincidence. 'His end fell well on the feast of Saint Felix, for he was felicitous in all things—felicitous in endowing the church, felicitous in ordering more clearly the divine offices, felicitous in the administration of justice, and in fine, felicitous in all his life.[']

意味（4）

(linguistics) Of a sentence or utterance: semantically and pragmatically coherent; fitting in the context.

This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous.

more felicitous （ comparative ）

most felicitous （ superlative ）