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fortunate happy jammy fortuitous sonsy luck luckily tinny unlucky providential charmed devil-may-care fluky chancy hot serendipity unhappy arsey happily trouvaille streaky canny luck out scratch blessing stiff grab bag hopefully break fluke tin-arsed miracle luckless mercy do well tin arse (it’s a) good thing favourable happy-go-lucky lucky stiff lucky devil have the luck of the devil serendipitous miraculous with (any) luck lead a charmed life heaven–sent auspicious blessed strike it rich/lucky some people/guys have all the luck
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a place in the sun fool–happy in luck slapdash fool-happy fortuitously lucky in love star–crossed well out of sth devil lighthearted grouter mascot well-off enjoy mercifully speed be made up be a good star (it’s a) good job blighter dog do something for luck cheat fate thank God/goodness/heaven(s) not believe your luck slaphappy lucky bean be on a roll (it’s) all right for some (people) privilege congratulate yourself count plain stupidity/luck etc thank your lucky stars blessed with windfall chiasmus fortune smiles on sb thing catch/capture lightning in a bottle deasil land/fall on your feet just my luck win land on your feet as luck would have it father-lasher bran tub a gift from the gods foot your luck's in! bonanza regard be unable to (or be hardly able to) believe one's luck schlemiel opportune sod mahurat fortune smiles on someone/something ill-starred talisman in the wrong place at the wrong time merciful nice have a narrow/lucky escape boast lucky/lazy/cheeky etc beggar every dog has its/his day what a mercy nick be just as well there but for the grace of God (go I) right Sunday child luckiness (it’s) all right for someone gamble gambling all right befall apprehension heptagon Anderson, Lindsay be unfortunate/unlucky/unwise/stupid etc enough to do something vitality the worm turns Anderson animadvert legal nanny apropos tabloid cancelled courtesy untainted guide Amis beneficiary wishbone Minogue aboard Amis, Sir Kingsley lobby manipulative daub stroke diligent lightsome harried corrugated viand lottery cavity retire granted happiness minion godsend intact opulent ambidextrous grandmother aurora concurrently materialize dour gifted blissful coincidental splendid streak superstitious survivor masseuse felicitous per diem bedtime backyard charm retention superstition termination own commuter inauspicious insurance indeterminable employer tribute prescient real world sprinkle disadvantage bless distributed gaffe goody head over heels horseshoe litigant preview purport run trust wacky bad confidante

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Words For "lucky"

As you've probably noticed, words for "lucky" are listed above. According to the algorithm that drives this word similarity engine, the top 5 related words for "lucky" are: fortunate, happy, jammy, fortuitous, and sonsy. There are 215 other words that are related to or similar to lucky listed above. Hopefully the generated list of words for "lucky" above suit your needs. If not, you might want to check out Related Words - another project of mine which uses a different technique (not though that it works best with single words, not phrases).

About Reverse Dictionary

The way Reverse Dictionary works is pretty simple. It simply looks through tonnes of dictionary definitions and grabs the ones that most closely match your search query. For example, if you type something like "longing for a time in the past", then the engine will return "nostalgia". The engine has indexed several million definitions so far, and at this stage it's starting to give consistently good results (though it may return weird results sometimes). It acts a lot like a thesaurus except that it allows you to search with a definition, rather than a single word. So in a sense, this tool is a "search engine for words", or a sentence to word converter.

I made this tool after working on Related Words which is a very similar tool, except it uses a bunch of algorithms and multiple databases to find similar words to a search query. That project is closer to a thesaurus in the sense that it returns synonyms for a word (or short phrase) query, but it also returns many broadly related words that aren't included in thesauri. So this project, Reverse Dictionary, is meant to go hand-in-hand with Related Words to act as a word-finding and brainstorming toolset. For those interested, I also developed Describing Words which helps you find adjectives and interesting descriptors for things (e.g. waves, sunsets, trees, etc.).

In case you didn't notice, you can click on words in the search results and you'll be presented with the definition of that word (if available). The definitions are sourced from the famous and open-source WordNet database, so a huge thanks to the many contributors for creating such an awesome free resource.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: Elastic Search, @HubSpot, WordNet, and @mongodb.

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