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felicitousDefinitions
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| felicitous | |
| 1. adj. Characterized by felicity. |  |
| 2. adj. Appropriate, apt, fitting. | |
| Synonyms: opportune, wealful, q2=dialectal or obsolete | |
| 3. adj. Auspicious, fortunate, lucky. | |
| 4. adj. Causing happiness or pleasure. | |
| 5. adj. (linguistics) Of a sentence or utterance: semantically and pragmatically coherent; fitting in the context. | |
| This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous. | |
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