Synonyms of fluky

fluky

adjective

ˈflü-kē 

variants also flukey

1

as in lucky

coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedly

a fluky coincidence that kept me safely at home when the blizzard hit

Synonyms & Similar Words

• lucky
• happy
• fortunate
• coincidental
• fortuitous
• providential
• convenient
• unexpected
• heaven-sent
• benign
• unforeseen
• accidental
• opportune
• bright
• timely
• good
• seasonable
• favorable
• chance
• serendipitous
• promising
• auspicious
• propitious
• hopeful
• unlooked-for
• beneficial
• advantageous
• encouraging
• profitable
• heartening
• golden
• fair
• halcyon

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• unfortunate
• unlucky
• unhappy
• luckless
• hapless
• untimely
• inconvenient
• inopportune
• unseasonable
• intentional
• anticipated
• deliberate
• foreseen
• expected
• ill-starred
• ill-fated
• disastrous
• star-crossed
• catastrophic
• planned
• inauspicious
• unpromising
• calamitous

2

as in accidental

happening by chance

the fluky selection of consecutive numbers on consecutive days of the lottery

Synonyms & Similar Words

• accidental
• random
• chance
• arbitrary
• fortuitous
• inadvertent
• incidental
• unintentional
• odd
• unplanned
• unintended
• casual
• coincidental
• unwitting
• unexpected
• unpremeditated
• unforeseen
• haphazard
• unforeseeable
• uncertain
• aimless
• desultory
• freak
• unconscious
• involuntary
• forced
• unprompted
• coerced

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• intentional
• deliberate
• premeditated
• predictable
• calculated
• inevitable
• intended
• certain
• planned
• foreseeable
• sure
• fixed
• destined
• set
• foreseen
• predetermined
• expected
• prepense
• premeditative
• prescribed
• wilful
• preordained
• willful
• conscious
• predestined
• voluntary
• unforced
• foreordained
• knowing
• volunteer
• freewill

Examples of fluky in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There the trillions begin to feel nature’s winnow: an ocean current is a fluky thing, and it cannot always be relied on to carry a cod egg where a young cod wants to be. —Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019

One was against Argentina and Lionel Messi at the height of his powers, the other a fluky loss to Canada in the 2000 Gold Cup. —Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 June 2023

The serious injuries to Altuve and Diaz are random and fluky things that could happen in games. —Larry Fleisher, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2023

Barring another fluky playoff outcome, could be another Lombardi Gras in the offing ... *Tampa Bay Buccaneers (10-6): QB Tom Brady's arrival has made them the league's unexpected darlings, ones boasting a franchise-record five games in prime time. —Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 14 May 2020