0 (of something that is to your advantage) not planned, happening by chance:
1 (esp. of something to your advantage) happening by chance:
Teacher intervention should most often arise through effective and direct questioning about the fortuitous discoveries in the pupils' previous performances.
Often, fortuitous matches across different cases are exploited.
The consensus achieved is, therefore, not an accident of compromise or a fortuitous coincidence but a genuine endorsement from all involved.
The chance these genetic variations will address needs within a changing environment is at best fortuitous coincidence.
The war-damaged argued that the undamaged had only preserved their assets by luck, given the fortuitous distribution of wartime and post-war losses.
Sarsens were perhaps deliberately selected because of natural markings upon them, or their fortuitous resemblance to artificial or natural forms.
Little attention is paid, however, to separating the possibility of adaptive host manipulation from incidental (if fortuitous) side-effects of infection.
Or is it a fortuitous effect of the hand?