fortunately

From fortunate +‎ -ly.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːt͡ʃənɪtli/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹt͡ʃənɪtli/, /ˈfɔɹt͡ʃnɪtli/, [ˈfɔɹt͡ʃnɪʔli]
• (General American, weak vowel merger) IPA^(key): /ˈfɔɹt͡ʃənətli/, /ˈfɔɹt͡ʃnətli/, [ˈfɔɹt͡ʃnəʔli]

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• Hyphenation: for‧tu‧nate‧ly

fortunately (comparative more fortunately, superlative most fortunately)

1. In a fortunate manner. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. It is (or was, etc) fortunate that.

   Fortunately for Sam, his pet hamster was alive.

   My mom has fortunately agreed to help us with the science project for school.

   • 1949, P.G. Wodehouse, The Mating Season:

     […] the best thing to do is to curl up with a good goose-flesher and try to forget, and fortunately I had packed among my effects one called Murder at Greystone Grange.

   • 1952, Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, page 807:

     Fortunately — very fortunately — the American people have a happy alternative to this bankrupt Republican campaign and its captive candidate.

   • 2005, Gregory P. Whyte, Mark Harries, Clyde Williams, ABC of sports and exercise medicine, page 4:

     Most pitchside medical staff fortunately will never have to treat a life threatening injury on the field of play.

   • 2015 September 10, Lynn Zinser, “At Hawaii Resort, Yoga by Day, Party by Night”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     Fortunately for the noncampers, half of the hotel rooms overlook the seaside stage, making attendance almost automatic, and very convenient in bad weather.

• (in a fortunate manner): auspiciously, luckily
• (it is fortunate that): happily, luckily, mercifully, thankfully, mercifully.