MEANING
Well chosen or pleasingly suited to the occasion.
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- felicitous phrase
- felicitous choice
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She found a felicitous phrase for the farewell.
The substitution proved a felicitous choice.
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Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more felicitous; superlative most felicitous where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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