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What does felicitous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Fitting; happening at the right time.
  2. Working out well.
  3. (linguistics) Semantically and pragmatically coherent, fitting in the context.
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However, grimly amusing as this spectacle is, the political reality behind these appointments may be less felicitous.
Or, to use the felicitous phrase of the late Northrop Frye, everything in the Scriptures is self-referential.
I have always felt that I manifest a felicitous combination of his compassion and her boundaries.
And yet it is full of couch potatoes rolling doobie after doobie and overly felicitous teeth-grinding cokeheads trying frantically to get a word in edgewise.
His originality is reflected in felicitous figures of speech and colorful use of words.
This makes it a happy hunting ground for anyone with the felicitous habit of looking at the lighter side of life.

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