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Definitions for Serendipitous
ˌsɛr ənˈdɪp ɪ təsserendip·i·tous

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. serendipitousadjective

    lucky in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries

Wiktionary

  1. serendipitousadjective

    By serendipity; by unexpected good fortune.

  2. serendipitousadjective

    Good, beneficial, favorable, etc..

    The weather was serendipitous for our vacation.

Wikipedia

  1. serendipitous

    Serendipity is an unplanned fortunate discovery. Serendipity is a common occurrence throughout the history of product invention and scientific discovery.

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  1. serendipitous

    Serendipitous refers to an unexpected or unplanned occurrence that is beneficial, advantageous, or positive in some way. It involves finding something good or pleasant without purposely seeking it, largely due to chance or luck.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Serendipitous in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Serendipitous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of Serendipitous in a Sentence

  1. Stephen Godfroy:

    (This) was the original role of a record store, being more than a point of purchase ... a place of congregation for independent, creative minds, a place that rewarded curiosity with serendipitous discovery, appealing to all ages and tastes in music.

  2. Rebecca Norris Webb:

    From the perspective of being a photographer, it was an utterly serendipitous photograph, i came onto the roof and there were some people out there and practically the first picture I took was the series of that woman and baby.

  3. Anastasios Tzanidakis:

    This was a serendipitous discovery, if we had been a few years off, we would’ve missed it. It also indicates that these types of binaries might be much more common. If so, we need to come up with theories about how this type of pairing even arose. It’s definitely an oddity, but it might be much more common than anyone has appreciated.

  4. Lee Mendelson:

    We are very sad to lose our wonderful father, but Lee would have said it was serendipitous to pass on Christmas when the song he wrote with Vince Guaraldi is being heard everywhere and the program he created with Charles Schulz and Bill Melendez is being celebrated around the world.

  5. Baptiste Journaux:

    We were trying to measure how adding salt would change the amount of ice we could get, since salt acts as an antifreeze, surprisingly, when we put the pressure on, what we saw is that these crystals that we were not expecting started growing. It was a very serendipitous discovery.

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