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accident - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | accident |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unexpected, undesirable event; often physically injurious |
| Synonyms: | blow, calamity, casualty, collision, disaster, fluke*, hazard, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, pileup*, setback, smash*, smashup*, total*, crack-up, fender-bender, rear ender, stack-up, wrack-up |
| Antonyms: | intent, intention, necessity, plan, provision |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | accident |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance event |
| Synonyms: | adventure, circumstance, contingency, fate, fluke*, fortune, happening, luck, occasion, occurrence, turn, fortuity |
| Antonyms: | calculation, decision, decree, plan |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | act of God |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | divine act |
| Synonyms: | accident, circumstances beyond one's control, earthquake, force majeure, freak accident, hurricane, inevitable accident, marvel, natural disaster, phenomenon, supernatural event, tornado, unavoidable casualty, unforeseen event, vis major, wonder |
| Main Entry: | catastrophe |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | calamity; unhappy conclusion |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bad news*, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, contretemps, crash, culmination, curtains*, debacle, denouement, desolation, devastation, disaster, emergency, end, failure, fatality, fiasco, finale, grief, hardship, havoc, ill, infliction, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, scourge, stroke, termination, tragedy, trial, trouble, upshot, waterloo*, wreck, alluvion, meltdown, the worst |
| Antonyms: | benefit, blessing, favor, good luck, happiness, miracle, success, wonder, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | contingency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance happening; possibility |
| Synonyms: | accident, break, chance, crisis, crossroads, emergency, event, eventuality, exigency, fortuity, happening, if it's cool, incident, juncture, likelihood, occasion, odds, opportunity, pass, pinch, predicament, probability, strait, turning point, uncertainty, zero hour* |
| Antonyms: | certainty, definiteness, reality, surety, truth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emergency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | crisis, danger |
| Synonyms: | accident, climax, clutch*, compulsion, crossroad, crunch*, depression, difficulty, distress, exigency, extremity, fix, hole, impasse, juncture, misadventure, necessity, pass, pinch*, plight, predicament, pressure, push, quandary, scrape, squeeze, strait, tension, turning point, urgency, vicissitude, zero hour*, meltdown |
| Antonyms: | calm, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fatality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death, loss; ability to cause such |
| Synonyms: | accident, casualty, disaster, dying, mortality, deadliness, destructiveness, inevitability, lethality, lethalness, necrosis, noxiousness, poisonousness, virulence |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| Main Entry: | fluke |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance occurrence |
| Synonyms: | accident, blessing, break, contingency, fortunate, fortune, good luck, incident, lucky break*, quirk, stroke of luck*, windfall, fortuity, good fortune, odd chance |
| Antonyms: | certainty, design, plan |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | happening |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence |
| Synonyms: | accident, adventure, affair, case, chance, circumstance, episode, event, experience, go*, incident, milestone, occasion, phenomenon, proceeding, scene, thing* |
| Antonyms: | method, plan, system |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | hardship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal burden |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, asperity, austerity, calamity, case, catastrophe, curse, danger, destitution, difficulty, disaster, discomfort, distress, drudgery, fatigue, grief, grievance, hard knocks*, hazard, injury, labor, mischance, misery, misfortune, need, oppression, peril, persecution, privation, rainy day, rigor, sorrow, suffering, toil, torment, travail, trial, tribulation, trouble, vicissitude, want, worry, Herculean task, rotten luck, tough break, tough luck, uphill battle |
| Antonyms: | advantage, assistance, benefit, blessing, ease, favor, gain, good, profit |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jeopardy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | danger, trouble |
| Synonyms: | accident, chance, exposure, hazard, insecurity, liability, out on a limb*, peril, risk, venture, double-trouble, endangerment, on the line, on the spot, precariousness, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | protection, safety |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | loss |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misfortune, deficit; something misplaced or lost |
| Synonyms: | accident, bad luck, bereavement, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, cost, damage, death, debit, debt, defeat, deficiency, depletion, deprivation, destitution, destruction, detriment, disadvantage, disappearance, disaster, failure, fall, fatality, forfeiture, harm, hurt, injury, losing, misadventure, mishap, need, perdition, privation, ruin, sacrifice, shrinkage, trial, trouble, undoing, want, waste, wreckage, dispossession, impairment, mislaying, misplacing, retardation, squandering |
| Antonyms: | accomplishment, achievement, success, win |
| Main Entry: | misadventure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad luck, mishap |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, blunder, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, debacle, disaster, error, failure, faux pas, lapse, mischance, misfortune, reverse, setback, slip, tragedy, woe, bad break, ill fortune |
| Antonyms: | blessing, good luck, success, triumph, good fortune |
| Main Entry: | misfortune/mishap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad luck; disaster |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, annoyance, anxiety, bad news*, blow*, burden, calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, contretemps, cross, crunch, debacle, disadvantage, disappointment, discomfort, dole, failure, hardship, harm, inconvenience, loss, misadventure, mischance, misery, nuisance, reverse, setback, tragedy, trial, tribulation, trouble, unpleasantness, visitation, worry, bad break, casuality, hard luck, infelicity, rotten luck, stroke of bad luck, tough luck |
| Antonyms: | advantage, benefit, blessing, fortune, good luck |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | occurrence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happening, development |
| Synonyms: | accident, adventure, affair, appearance, circumstance, condition, contingency, emergency, episode, event, exigency, existence, incidence, incident, instance, juncture, manifestation, occasion, pass, piece, proceeding, routine, scene, situation, state, thing*, transaction, materialization, transpiration |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | risk |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance taken |
| Synonyms: | accident, contingency, danger, exposure, flyer*, fortune, gamble, hazard, jeopardy, liability, luck, opportunity, peril, plunge, possibility, prospect, shot in the dark*, speculation, stab*, uncertainty, venture, wager, exposedness, fortuity, header, liableness, openness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, safety, surety, sureness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | smashup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wreck |
| Synonyms: | accident, collision, crash, fender bender, impact, jolt, mess, total, wreckage, crack-up, pile-up, rear-ender, sideswipe |
| Main Entry: | undoing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | destruction, misfortune |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, bad luck, bane, blight, blow, blunder, calamity, casualty, catastrophe, collapse, curse, defeat, destroyer, difficulty, disgrace, doom, downfall, error, failure, fault, faux pas, flaw, fumble, grief, humiliation, last straw*, misadventure, mischance, mishap, misstep, omission, overthrow, overturn, reversal, reverse, ruin, shame, slip, smash, stumble, subversion, trial, trip, trouble, visitation, weakness, wreck, bad omen, miscalculation, ruination |
| Antonyms: | building, creation, doing, good fortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | misfortune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disaster |
| Synonyms: | accident, adversity, affliction, annoyance, anxiety, bad luck, bad news, blow, burden, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, contretemps, cross, crunch, debacle, disadvantage, disappointment, discomfort, dole, failure, hardship, harm, inconvenience, loss, misadventure, mischance, misery, mishap, nuisance, reverse, setback, tragedy, trial, tribulation, trouble, unpleasantness, visitation, worry, bad break, hard luck, infelicity, rotten luck, tough luck, unluck |
| Antonyms: | piece of luck |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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