Serendipitously
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 By serendipity; by blind luck in combination with wisdom; by fortunate accident.
"And that was a few years before the serendipitously named American politician Anthony Weiner reminded us once again that a high-powered job is no guarantee of knowing what to do with your penis, through his "sexting" use of Twitter (Snapchat hadn't been invented yet.)"
Synonyms
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More examples"Explorers looked for shortcuts in space-time to meander serendipitously through the universe."
Etymology
From serendipitous + -ly.
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