Felicitous
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /fəˈlɪsɪtəs/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Felicitous is an adjective meaning Characterized by felicity.
Meaning
Characterized by felicity.
More Meanings
- (linguistics) Of a sentence or utterance: semantically and pragmatically coherent; fitting in the context.
Example Sentences
This sentence is grammatical; it is just not felicitous.
The aim of this paper is to compare rst [rhetorical structure theory], sdrt [segmented discourse representation theory] and discourse dependency dags [directed acyclic graphs] with respect to the following question: do these formalisms allow the representation of all the discourse structures which correspond to felicitous discourses and exclude those which correspond to infelicitous discourses?
Synonyms for felicitous
Depending on context, synonyms include cool, happy, well-turned, gratulatory, congratulatory.
Antonyms for felicitous
Common opposites include infelicitous, sponge.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include well-wishing, gratulatory, congratulatory, happy, well-turned, cool.
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