different between nicely vs fortunately

English

Etymology

From nice +? -ly.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n??sli/

Adverb

nicely (comparative nicelier or more nicely, superlative niceliest or most nicely)

1. (obsolete) Fastidiously; carefully. [16th-18th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.xii:

     He lookt askew with his mistrustfull eyes, / And nicely trode, as thornes lay in his way, / Or that the flore to shrinke he did auyse [...].

2. Precisely; with fine discernment or judgement. [from 17th c.]
   • 1926, Ford Madox Ford, A Man Could Stand Up—, Penguin 2012 (Parade's End), p. 580:

     An army – especially in peace time – is a very complex and nicely adjusted affair […].

   • 2011, Thomas Penn, Winter King, Penguin 2012, p. 59:

     Henry's carefully calibrated public appearances would present him as the wellspring of honour, justice and power, the unknowable, all-seeing sovereign who, as the Milanese ambassador Soncino nicely observed, appeared in public ‘like one at the top of a tower looking on at what is passing in the plain’.

3. Pleasantly; satisfactorily. [from 18th c.]

Translations

Anagrams

• lycine

English

Etymology

fortunate +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?f??t???n?tli/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?f??t???n?tli/
• Hyphenation: for?tu?nate?ly

Adverb

fortunately (comparative more fortunately, superlative most fortunately)

1. In a fortunate manner. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. It is (or was, etc) fortunate that.

   Fortunately, Sam's pet hamster was not dead.

Synonyms

• (in a fortunate manner): auspiciously, luckily
• (it is fortunate that): happily, luckily, mercifully, thankfully

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