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| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accidental, unforeseeable |
| Synonyms: | adventitious, casual, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, fortunate, happy, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, odd, offhand, unforeseen, unintentional, unplanned, at random, unlooked for |
| Antonyms: | planned, understood, designed, foreseeable |
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | possibility, probability |
| Synonyms: | break, contingency, fair shake*, fighting chance*, liability, likelihood, long shot*, occasion, odds, opening, opportunity, outlook, prospect, scope, shot*, show, squeak, time, wager, indications, look-in |
| Antonyms: | assurance, certainty, design, law, plan, scheme |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, luck |
| Synonyms: | accident, advantage, adventure, bad luck, break, cast, casualty, coincidence, contingency, destination, destiny, doom, fluke, fortune, future, gamble, good luck, haphazard, happening, hazard, hit*, kismet, lot, lottery, lucky break, misfortune, occurrence, odds, outcome, peril, providence, risk, stroke of luck*, toss-up, wheel of fortune*, even chance, fortuity, hap, heads or tails, in the cards, luck out, peradventure, throw of the dice, turn of the cards, way the cookie crumbles |
| Antonyms: | aim, design, plan, scheme |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen |
| Synonyms: | arrive, be one's fate, befall, betide, blunder on, break, bump, come, come about, come off, come to pass, fall out, fall to one's lot, go, hap, hit upon, light, light upon, luck, meet, occur, stumble, stumble on, transpire, tumble, turn up |
| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gamble, risk |
| Synonyms: | bet, hazard, jeopardy, lottery, raffle, speculation, stake, try, venture, wager, craps game, fall of the cards, throw of the dice |
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-nouns
chance, indetermination, accident, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, chance medley, random, luck, raccroc, casualty, contingence, adventure, hit; fate (necessity) [more]; equal chance; lottery; tombola; toss up [more]; turn of the table, turn of the cards; hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate; cast of the dice, throw of the dice; heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of Fortune; sortes, sortes Virgilianae., probability, possibility, odds; long odds, run of luck; accidentalness; main chance, odds on, favorable odds., contingency, dependence (uncertainty) [more]; situation (circumstance) [more]., statistics, theory of Probabilities, theory of Chances; bookmaking; assurance; speculation, gaming [more]., chance [more]; lot, fate (necessity) [more]; luck; good luck (good) [more]; mascot., speculation, venture, stake, game of chance; mere shot, random shot; blind bargain, leap in the dark; pig in a poke (uncertainty) [more]; fluke, potluck; faro bank; flyer; limit., drawing lots; sortilegy, sortition; sortes, sortes Virgilianae; rouge et noir, hazard, ante, chuck-a-luck, crack-loo [U.S.], craps, faro, roulette, pitch and toss, chuck, farthing, cup tossing, heads or talls, cross and pile, poker-dice; wager; bet, betting; gambling; the turf., gaming house, gambling house, betting house; bucket shop; joint; totalizator, totalizer; hell; betting ring; dice, dice box; dicer; gambler, gamester; man of the turf; adventurer.
-verbs
chance, hap, turn up; fall to one's lot; be one's fate [more]; stumble on, light upon; take one's chance [more]., chance (hap) [more]; stand a chance (be possible) [more]., toss up; cast lots, draw lots; leave to chance, trust to chance, leave to the chapter of accidents, trust to the chapter of accidents; tempt fortune; chance it, take one's chance; run the risk, run the chance, incur the risk, incur the chance, encounter the risk, encounter the chance; stand the hazard of the die., speculate, try one's luck, set on a cast, raffle, put into a lottery, buy a pig in a poke, shuffle the cards., risk, venture, hazard, stake; ante; lay, lay a wager; make a bet, wager, bet, gamble, game, play for; play at chuck farthing.
-adjectives
casual, fortuitous, accidental, adventitious, causeless, incidental, contingent, uncaused, undetermined, indeterminate; random, statistical; possible [more]; unintentional [more]., fortuitous [more]; unintentional, unintended; accidental; not meant; undesigned, purposed; unpremeditated [more]; unforeseen, never thought of., indiscriminate, promiscuous; undirected, random; aimless, driftless, designless, purposeless, causeless; without purpose., possible [more].
-adverbs
by chance, accidentally, by accident; casually; perchance (possibly) [more]; for aught one knows; as good would have it, as bad would have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as chance would have it; as it may be, as it may chance, as it may turn up, as it may happen; as the case may be., casually [more]; unintentionally; unwittingly., en passant, by the way, incidentally; as it may happen; at random, at a venture, at haphazard.
-phrases
"grasps the skirts of happy chance" [Tennyson]; "the accident of an accident" [Lord Thurlow]; "There but for the grace of God go I.", acierta errando; dextro tempore; "fearful concatenation of circumstances" [D. Webster]; "fortuitous combination of circumstances" [Dickens]; le jeu est le fils d'avarice et le pere du desespoic; "the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances" [Scott]; "the fortuitous or casual concourse of
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| Antonyms: | attribution |
| Main Entry: | accidental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | happening unexpectedly |
| Synonyms: | adventitious, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, fluky*, fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, random, unexpected, unforeseen, unintentional, unplanned, uncalculated, unintended |
| Notes: | accidental stresses chance; fortuitous so strongly suggests chance that it often connotes absence of cause |
| Antonyms: | decided, essential, intended, intentional, planned, premeditated, designed |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | adventure |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | risky or unexpected undertaking |
| Synonyms: | chance, contingency, enterprise, experience, exploit, feat, happening, hazard, incident, jeopardy, occurrence, peril, scene, speculation, trip, undertaking, venture, emprise, endangerment |
| Antonyms: | avoidance, inaction, inertia, passiveness, stillness, inactivity, latency |
| Main Entry: | aimless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having no goal |
| Synonyms: | accidental, any which way, blind, capricious, careless, casual, chance, desultory, erratic, fanciful, fickle, flighty, fortuitous, frivolous, haphazard, heedless, hit-or-miss*, indecisive, indiscriminate, irresolute, pointless, purposeless, random, shiftless, stray, thoughtless, unavailing, unplanned, unpredictable, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wayward, bits-and-pieces, directionless, drifting, fits and starts, goalless, objectless, undirected, unguided |
| Antonyms: | determined, directed, pointed, purposeful, resolute, goal-oriented, motivated |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | befall |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen to; take place |
| Synonyms: | action, betide, break, chance, come down, come off, cook*, develop, ensue, fall, fall out, follow, go, go down, happen, jell*, materialize, occur, shake*, smoke*, transpire, bechance, come to pass, cook up a storm, cook with gas, gel, hap, supervene |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | game of chance; money gambled |
| Synonyms: | action, ante, chance, hazard, long shot, lot, lottery, odds, parlay, play, pledge, plunge, pot, raffle, risk, shot, shot in the dark*, speculation, stake, uncertainty, venture, wager, betting, down on, odds on, random shot, sweepstakes |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | gamble |
| Synonyms: | ante, chance, dice, game, hazard, pledge, put, risk, set, speculate, trust, venture, wager, buy in on, lay down, lay odds, play against, play for, play the ponies, pony up, put money on, tempt fortune, toss up |
| Main Entry: | coincidental |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | accidental |
| Synonyms: | casual, chance, circumstantial, fluky, fortuitous, incidental, unintentional, unplanned |
| Antonyms: | decided, deliberate, planned, designed |
| Main Entry: | come off |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | transpire |
| Synonyms: | befall, betide, break, chance, click, come about, develop, go, go off, go over, happen, occur, pan out, succeed, hap, prove out, take place |
| Antonyms: | not happen |
| Main Entry: | come upon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | happen upon |
| Synonyms: | bump into*, chance, come across, encounter, meet |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | contingent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | conditional; possible |
| Synonyms: | accidental, casual, chance, dependent, fluky, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, likely, odd, probable, probably, random, subject to, uncertain, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unpredictable, controlled by, unanticipated |
| Antonyms: | certain, definite, real, sure, truthful, unconditional |
| Main Entry: | credibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | believeableness |
| Synonyms: | chance, integrity, likelihood, possibility, probability, prospect, reliability, soundness, validity, believability, plausibility, satisfactoriness, solidity, solidness, tenability, trustworthiness |
| Antonyms: | improbability, implausibility, unreasonableness |
| Main Entry: | desultory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | random |
| Synonyms: | aimless, chance, chaotic, deviating, erratic, haphazard, rambling, unstable, orderless, unmethodical, unsystematic, without purpose |
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