| Main Entry: | kismet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, fortune |
Synonyms: |
Lady Luck, chance, destination, destiny, divine will, doom, handwriting on the wall, horoscope, karma, lot, luck, portion, predestination, providence |
| 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: | circumstance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | situation, condition |
Synonyms: |
Moira, accident, action, adjunct, affair, article, case, cause, coincidence, concern, contingency, crisis, destiny, detail, doom, element, episode, event, exigency, fact, factor, fate, feature, fortuity, go, happening, happenstance, incident, intervention, item, juncture, kismet, lot, matter, occasion, occurrence, particular, phase, place, point, portion, proviso, respect, scene, status, stipulation, supervention, thing, time, where it's at |
| Main Entry: | destiny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate |
Synonyms: |
Moirai, afterlife, break*, breaks, certainty, circumstance, conclusion, condition, constellation, course of events, cup, design, divine decree, doom, expectation, finality, foreordination, fortune, future, happenstance, hereafter, horoscope, inevitability, intent, intention, karma, kismet*, lot, luck, objective, ordinance, portion, predestination, predetermination, prospect, serendipity, the stars, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles, what is written, wheel of fortune, world to come |
Antonyms: |
choice, free will, volition |
| Main Entry: | doom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate or decision, usually unpleasant |
Synonyms: |
Judgment Day, Moira, annihilation, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, circumstance, conclusion, condemnation, death, decree, destination, destiny, destruction, disaster, downfall, end, fixed future, foreordination, fortune, handwriting on wall, judgment, karma, kismet, lap of the gods, lot, opinion, portion, predestination, predetermination, ruin, sentence, tragedy, verdict, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles |
| Main Entry: | fate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | predetermined course |
Synonyms: |
Moirai, break, chance, circumstance, consequence, cup*, destination, destiny, divine will, doom, effect, end, ending, fortune, future, handwriting on the wall, horoscope, inescapableness, issue, karma, kismet, lot, luck, nemesis, outcome, portion, predestination, providence, stars, termination, upshot, wheel of fortune |
| Notes: | fate is an event or a course of events that will inevitably happen in the future or the supposed force or power that predetermines events while a fete is an elaborate, usually outdoor, party or festival |
| Main Entry: | fortune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, lot in life |
Synonyms: |
Moirai, accident, break*, certainty, chance, circumstances, contingency, destiny, doom, expectation, experience, fifty-fifty, fighting chance, fluke, fortuity, fortunateness, good break, hazard, history, karma*, kismet*, life, luck, lucked into, lucked out, luckiness, lucky break, lucky hit, portion, providence, roll of the dice, run of luck, star, streak of luck, success, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles, wheel of fortune |
| Main Entry: | lot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, destiny |
Synonyms: |
Moirai, accident, break, breaks, chance, circumstance, decree, doom, foreordination, fortune, hand one is dealt, hazard, karma, kismet, plight, portion, predestination, run of luck, way cookie crumbles, wheel of fortune |
| Main Entry: | luck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good fortune |
Synonyms: |
advantage, big break, blessing, break*, fluke, fortunateness, godsend, good luck, happiness, health, in the cards, karma*, kismet*, luckiness, lucky break, occasion, opportunity, profit, prosperity, run of luck, serendipity, smile*, streak of luck, stroke, success, triumph, victory, weal, wealth, win, windfall |
Antonyms: |
bad fortune, misfortune |
| Main Entry: | portion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, destiny |
Synonyms: |
circumstance, cup*, doom, fortune, kismet*, lot*, luck |