felicitous

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: adjective

(formal or literary) (especially of words) chosen well; very suitable; giving a good result: a felicitous turn of phrase felicitously adverb

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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felicitousEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus felicitousEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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