luckiest

ADJECTIVE

fortunate, opportune

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fortuitous happy hot successful

WEAK

advantageous adventitious all systems go auspicious beneficial benign blessed charmed coming up roses everything going favored felicitous getting a break golden hit it big holding aces hopeful in the groove into something on a roll on a streak promising propitious prosperous providential serendipitous striking it rich timely well

Antonyms

STRONGEST

unlucky

WEAK

bad inopportune unfortunate unpropitious unsuccessful

Example Sentences

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And yet, with a wider view, the Bills remain the pluckiest of NFL underdogs.

From Washington Post • Oct. 4, 2022

Celina Smith is the world’s pluckiest orphan and Taraji P. Henson is the scheming Miss Hannigan in “Annie Live!”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 1, 2021

It's edge-of-the-seat stuff from the off, and when the pluckiest reach the ocean, you'll be punching the air.

From The Guardian • Jan. 22, 2013

Heck, even the dewiest, pluckiest ingénue would have a hard time staying fresh once she became an endlessly re-marketable brand name.

From New York Times • Nov. 9, 2012

Yet there are times when even the pluckiest among us fail to follow this sage advice.

From "The Unseen Guest" by Maryrose Wood