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| 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: | 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: | 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: | crisis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | critical situation |
| Synonyms: | catastrophe, change, climax, confrontation, contingency, corner, crossroad, crunch*, crux, culmination, deadlock, dilemma, dire straits, disaster, embarrassment, emergency, entanglement, exigency, extremity, height, imbroglio, impasse, juncture, mess, moment of truth*, necessity, pass, pickle*, pinch*, plight, point of no return*, predicament, pressure, puzzle, quandary, situation, stew, strait, trauma, trial, trouble, turning point, urgency, big trouble, climacteric, hot potato, hour of decision, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | calm, peace |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eventuality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that probably will happen |
| Synonyms: | aftermath, case, chance, consequence, contingency, effect, event, happening, issue, likelihood, outcome, possibility, probability, result, sequel, toss-up, upshot*, aftereffect, any case, go-down, goings-on |
| Antonyms: | improbability, unlikelihood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exigency/exigence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty; demand |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, constraint, contingency, crisis, crossroad, dilemma, distress, duress, emergency, extremity, fix, hardship, jam, juncture, necessity, need, pass, pickle*, pinch, plight, predicament, pressure, quandary, requirement, scrape*, stress, turning point*, urgency, vicissitude, want, wont, zero hour*, criticalness, demandingness, imperativeness, needfulness, pressingness |
| Antonyms: | ease, easiness, ordinariness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | 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: | opportunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lucky chance; favorable circumstances |
| Synonyms: | befalling, break*, connection, contingency, convenience, cut*, event, excuse, fair shake*, fighting chance*, fitness, fling*, fortuity, freedom, go*, good fortune, good luck, happening, hope, hour, iron in the fire, juncture, leisure, liberty, moment, occasion, one's move, one's say, one's turn, opening, pass, prayer*, probability, relief, room, run, scope, shot*, show, space, spell, squeak, stab, the hunt, the running, time, turn, whack* |
| Antonyms: | bad luck, misfortune |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | possibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feasibility, likelihood; chance |
| Synonyms: | action, break, circumstance, contingency, fair shake*, fling*, fluke*, happening, hazard, hope, incident, instance, liability, occasion, occurrence, odds*, opportunity, play*, prayer*, probability, prospect, risk*, shot*, stab*, toss-up, achievability, attainableness, fifty-fifty*, fortuity, likeliness, outside chance, plausibility, potentiality, practicability, workableness |
| Antonyms: | impossibility, impossible, unfeasibility, unlikelihood |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | probability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | likelihood of something happening |
| Synonyms: | anticipation, chance, chances, conceivability, contingency, credibility, expectation, feasibility, hazard, liability, likeliness, odds, outside chance, plausibility, possibility, practicability, prayer, presumption, promise, prospect, reasonableness, shot, snowball's chance, toss-up |
| Antonyms: | improbability, unlikelihood |
| Main Entry: | relationship |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | connection; friendship |
| Synonyms: | accord, affair, affiliation, affinity, alliance, analogy, association, bond, communication, conjunction, consanguinity, contact, contingency, correlation, dependency, exchange, homogeneity, kinship, liaison, likeness, link, marriage, nearness, network, parallel, pertinence, proportion, rapport, ratio, relation, similarity, tie, appositeness, consociation, dependence, hookup, interconnection, interrelation, interrelationship, pertinency, relativity, relevance, tie-in, tie-up |
| 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: | turning point |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | critical juncture |
| Synonyms: | axis, change, climax, contingency, crisis, critical mass, critical point, crossing, crossroads, crunch, crux, culmination, cusp, defining moment, development, emergency, exigency, high noon, hinge, juncture, moment of truth*, moment of truth, nexus, pass, peak, pinch, pivot, point of no return, shift, strait, transition, twist, zero hour*, zero hour, climacteric, critical moment, critical period, crucial moment, crucial occurrence, crucial period, decisive moment, kairotic moment, peripeteia, pivotal moment, race against time, rising action, turn of the tide, when push comes to shove |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncertainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt, changeableness |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, ambivalence, anxiety, bewilderment, concern, confusion, conjecture, contingency, dilemma, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, indecision, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, puzzle, qualm, quandary, query, reserve, scruple, skepticism, suspicion, trouble, uneasiness, vagueness, wonder, worry, doubtfulness, guesswork, inconclusiveness, irresolution, lack of confidence, mystification, perplexity, puzzlement, questionableness, unpredictability |
| Antonyms: | certainty, security, definiteness, sureness |
| Main Entry: | zero hour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | moment of truth |
| Synonyms: | climax, contingency, countdown, crisis, crossroad, crossroads, crunch time, deadline, emergency, exigency, juncture, moment of truth*, pinch, strait, target, turning point*, turning point, A-day, D-day, D-day, H-hour, appointed hour, appointed hour, crisis point, jumping-off point, pivotal moment, start time, target day, the time, vital moment |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exigency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difficulty |
| Synonyms: | acuteness, constraint, contingency, crisis, crossroad, demand, dilemma, distress, duress, emergency, extremity, fix, hardship, jam, juncture, necessity, need, pass, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, pressure, quandary, requirement, scrape, stress, turning point, urgency, vicissitude, want, wont, zero hour, criticalness, demandingness, exigence, imperativeness, needfulness, pressingness |
| Main Entry: | casualty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | accident |
| Synonyms: | blow, calamity, catastrophe, chance, contingency, debacle, disaster, misadventure, misfortune, mishap |
| 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: | state |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | condition or mode of being |
| Synonyms: | accompaniment, attitude, capacity, case, category, character, circumstance, circumstances, contingency, element, environment, essential, estate, event, eventuality, fix, footing, form, frame of mind, humor, imperative, juncture, limitation, mood, nature, occasion, occurrence, outlook, pass, phase, plight, position, posture, predicament, prerequisite, proviso, reputation, requirement, shape, situation, spirits, stand, standing, station, status, stipulation, time, welfare, chances, state of affairs |
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