| Main Entry: | hazard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger |
Synonyms: |
double trouble, dynamite, endangerment, hot potato, imperilment, jeopardy, peril, risk, risky business, thin ice, threat |
Antonyms: |
protection, safeguard, safety |
| Main Entry: | hazard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luck, chance |
Synonyms: |
accident, adventure, coincidence, dynamite, fling*, fluke, go*, hundred-to-one, long shot, lucky break, lucky hit, misfortune, mishap, possibility, risk, risky business, stroke of luck, toss-up, venture, wager, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles |
Antonyms: |
assurance, certainty, determination, fact, proof, reality, surety |
| Main Entry: | hazard |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | take a chance; risk |
Synonyms: |
adventure, conjecture, dare, endanger, gamble, go for broke, go out on limb, guess, imperil, jeopardize, presume, proffer, skate on thin ice, speculate, stake, submit, suppose, take a plunge, throw out, try, venture, volunteer, wager |
| Main Entry: | accident |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unexpected, undesirable event; often physically injurious |
Synonyms: |
blow, calamity, casualty, collision, crack-up, disaster, fender-bender, fluke, hazard, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, pileup, rear ender, setback, smash*, smashup, stack-up, total*, wrack-up |
Antonyms: |
intent, intention, necessity, plan, provision |
| Main Entry: | adventure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | risky or unexpected undertaking |
Synonyms: |
chance, contingency, emprise, endangerment, enterprise, experience, exploit, feat, happening, hazard, incident, jeopardy, occurrence, peril, scene, speculation, trip, undertaking, venture |
Antonyms: |
avoidance, inaction, inactivity, inertia, latency, passiveness, stillness |
| Main Entry: | bet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | game of chance; money gambled |
Synonyms: |
action, ante, betting, chance, down on, hazard, long shot, lot, lottery, odds, odds on, parlay, play, pledge, plunge, pot, raffle, random shot, risk, shot, shot in the dark, speculation, stake, sweepstakes, uncertainty, venture, wager |
| Main Entry: | bet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gamble |
Synonyms: |
ante, buy in on, chance, dice, game, hazard, lay down, lay odds, play against, play for, play the ponies, pledge, pony up, put, put money on, risk, set, speculate, tempt fortune, toss up, trust, venture, wager |
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, luck |
Synonyms: |
accident, advantage, adventure, bad luck, break, cast, casualty, coincidence, contingency, destination, destiny, doom, even chance, fluke, fortuity, fortune, future, gamble, good luck, hap, haphazard, happening, hazard, heads or tails, hit*, in the cards, kismet, lot, lottery, luck out, lucky break, misfortune, occurrence, odds, outcome, peradventure, peril, providence, risk, stroke of luck, throw of the dice, toss-up, turn of the cards, way the cookie crumbles, wheel of fortune |
Antonyms: |
aim, design, plan, scheme |
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gamble, risk |
Synonyms: |
bet, craps game, fall of the cards, hazard, jeopardy, lottery, raffle, speculation, stake, throw of the dice, try, venture, wager |
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | risk, endanger |
Synonyms: |
attempt, cast lots, draw lots, gamble, go out on a limb, have a fling at, hazard, jeopardize, play with fire, plunge, put eggs in one basket, put it on the line, roll the dice, run the risk, skate on thin ice, speculate, stake, stick one's neck out, take shot in the dark, tempt fate, tempt fortune, toss up, try, venture, wager, wildcat |
Antonyms: |
aim, design, plan, scheme, understand |