| 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 |
| Main Entry: | accident |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance event |
Synonyms: |
adventure, circumstance, contingency, fate, fluke, fortuity, fortune, happening, luck, occasion, occurrence, turn |
Antonyms: |
calculation, decision, decree, plan |
| 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: | case |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | circumstance, conditions |
Synonyms: |
context, contingency, crisis, dilemma, event, eventuality, fact, incident, occurrence, plight, position, predicament, problem, quandary, situation, state, status |
| 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, indications, liability, likelihood, long shot, look-in, occasion, odds, opening, opportunity, outlook, prospect, scope, shot*, show, squeak, time, wager |
Antonyms: |
assurance, certainty, design, law, plan, scheme |
| 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: | condition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | requirement, limitation |
Synonyms: |
arrangement, article, catch, codicil, contingency, demand, essential, exception, exemption, fine print, kicker, modification, must, necessity, postulate, precondition, prerequisite, provision, proviso, qualification, requisite, reservation, rule, sine qua non, small print, stipulation, strings, terms |
| Main Entry: | crisis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | critical situation |
Synonyms: |
big trouble, catastrophe, change, climacteric, climax, confrontation, contingency, corner, crossroad, crunch, crux, culmination, deadlock, dilemma, dire straits, disaster, embarrassment, emergency, entanglement, exigency, extremity, height, hot potato, hour of decision, imbroglio, impasse, juncture, mess, moment of truth, necessity, pass, perplexity, pickle, pinch*, plight, point of no return, predicament, pressure, puzzle, quandary, situation, stew, strait, trauma, trial, trouble, turning point, urgency |
Antonyms: |
calm, peace |