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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luckiest

To follow Alexander was, Mr. Richardson relates, for all but his luckiest generals, ultimately to sacrifice oneself “for another man’s dreams,” namely and tragically, to “break the limits of his humanity.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

“I feel like the luckiest guy in New York right now, to be honest with you,” Sadoski told Backstage on Broadway at the time.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

"I am without a doubt, officially, the world's luckiest man," he told the paper.

From BBC ● Jun. 21, 2026

And the deli guy every Saturday morning would hand me a free slice of American cheese and I was like the luckiest kid in the world.

From Slate ● Jun. 20, 2026

Wasn’t I the luckiest boy in the world?

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls