| Main Entry: | compromise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | agreement, give-and-take |
Synonyms: |
accommodation, accord, adjustment, arrangement, bargain, compact, composition, concession, contract, copout, covenant, deal, fifty-fifty, half and half, half measure, happy medium, mean, middle course, middle ground, pact, sellout, settlement, trade-off, understanding, win-win situation |
Antonyms: |
contest, controversy, difference, disagreement, dispute, dissension, dissent, quarrel |
| Main Entry: | equal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | alike |
Synonyms: |
according, balanced, break even, commensurate, comparable, coordinate, correspondent, corresponding, double, duplicate, egalitarian, equivalent, evenly matched, fifty-fifty, homologous, identic, identical, indistinguishable, invariable, level, look-alike, matched, matching, one and the same, parallel, proportionate, same, same difference, spit and image, stack up with, tantamount, to the same degree, two peas in pod, uniform, unvarying |
Antonyms: |
different, not alike, unequal, unlike, unmatched, variable, varying |
| Main Entry: | even |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | commensurate; having no advantage |
Synonyms: |
balanced, coequal, comparable, coterminous, drawn, equal, equalized, equivalent, even-steven, exact, fifty-fifty, horse to horse, identical, level, matching, neck and neck, on a par, parallel, proportional, proportionate, same, similar, smack in the middle, square, tied, uniform |
Antonyms: |
irregular, unequal, uneven |
| 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: | half |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | partial |
Synonyms: |
bisected, divided, even-steven, fifty-fifty, fractional, halved, incomplete, limited, moderate, partly |
| Notes: | half is one of two equal parts of a divisible whole; halve means to divide by two |
Antonyms: |
total, whole |
| Main Entry: | likelihood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance of something happening |
Synonyms: |
coin flip, direction, even break, fair shake, fifty-fifty, fighting chance, good chance, liability, likeliness, long shot, outside chance, plausibility, possibility, presumption, probability, prospect, reasonableness, shot at, strong possibility, tendency, toss-up, trend |
Antonyms: |
unlikelihood |
| Main Entry: | luck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance |
Synonyms: |
accident, break, destiny, fate, fifty-fifty, fortuity, fortune, hap, happenstance, hazard, occasion, occurrence, toss-up, unforeseen event |
| Main Entry: | possibility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feasibility, likelihood; chance |
Synonyms: |
achievability, action, attainableness, break, circumstance, contingency, fair shake, fifty-fifty, fling*, fluke, fortuity, happening, hazard, hope, incident, instance, liability, likeliness, occasion, occurrence, odds, opportunity, outside chance, plausibility, play*, potentiality, practicability, prayer*, probability, prospect, risk*, shot*, stab*, toss-up, workableness |
Antonyms: |
impossibility, impossible, unfeasibility, unlikelihood |
| Main Entry: | share |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | portion, allotment |
Synonyms: |
allowance, apportionment, bite, chunk, claim, commission, contribution, cut, cut in, cut up, divide, dividend, division, divvy, dose, drag*, due, end, fifty-fifty, fraction, fragment, halver, helping, heritage, interest, lagniappe, lot, measure, meed, parcel, part, partage, percentage, piece, pittance, plum, points, proportion, quantum, quota, quotient, quotum, rake-off, ration, segment, serving, slice, split, stake, taste, whack |
Antonyms: |
whole |
| Main Entry: | wager |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | money or something gambled |
Synonyms: |
action, ante, bet, challenge, chunk, fifty-fifty, fighting chance, flyer, gamble, handle, hazard, hedge, hunch, long shot, odds on, outside chance, parlay, play, pledge, plunge, pot, risk, stake, toss-up, venture |