Fortify. Protect, surround; reinforce, brace, stiffen, strengthen; confirm, corroborate; garrison, intrench.

Ant. Weaken, dismantle; invalidate.

Fortitude. Endurance, heroism, resolution, courage; firmness, patience; bravery; calmness, resignation, hardihood, composure, stoicism.

Ant. Impatience, timidity, flinching, irritation, faintness, delicacy, effeminacy, womanishness, childishness.

Fortuitous. Accidental, casual, contingent, chance, incidental, undesigned.

Ant. Purposed, planned, designed; anticipated, foreseen.

Fortunate. Favored, lucky, successful, prosperous, happy, felicitous, propitious, auspicious, favorable, advantageous, providential.

Ant. Miserable, unhappy, unlucky, ill-starred, unfortunate, wretched, woful, fallen, infelicitous, broke, crushed.

Fortune. Chance, accident, luck, hap, casualty, fortuity; livelihood; estate, substance, property, possessions; wealth, affluence, riches, opulence; destiny, fate, destination, doom, star, lot; issue, result, event; success.

Ant. Design, purpose; misfortune, ill luck, poverty; inception, cause, failure.