as luck would have it

1. 1.

   by good fortune

   “fortunately the weather was good”

   Synonymsfortunatelyfortuitouslyluckily

Questions about as luck would have it

What does as luck would have it mean?

as luck would have it means "by good fortune".

What is another word for as luck would have it?

Close synonyms include fortunately, fortuitously, luckily. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is as luck would have it a common word?

as luck would have it is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.