| 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, materialization, occasion, pass, piece, proceeding, routine, scene, situation, state, thing*, transaction, transpiration |
| Main Entry: | occurrence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
at issue, bustling, current, doing, eventful, full of incident, going on, happening, in question, in the wind, incidental, on foot, on the tapis
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| 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: | advent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning or arrival of something anticipated |
Synonyms: |
appearance, approach, arrival, coming, entrance, occurrence, onset, visitation |
Antonyms: |
departure, end |
| 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: | affair |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | matter or business to be taken care of; happening activity |
Synonyms: |
assignment, avocation, calling, case, circumstance, concern, duty, employment, episode, event, hap, happening, incident, interest, job, mission, obligation, occupation, occurrence, office function, proceeding, profession, project, province, pursuit, question, realm, responsibility, subject, task, thing*, topic, transaction, undertaking |
| Main Entry: | arrival |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming to a destination |
Synonyms: |
accession, advent, alighting, appearance, approach, arriving, debarkation, disembarkation, dismounting, entrance, happening, homecoming, influx, ingress, landing, meeting, occurrence, return |
Antonyms: |
departure, disappearance, leave |
| 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: | case |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | example |
Synonyms: |
case history, exemplification, illustration, instance, occasion, occurrence, representative, sample, sampling, specimen |
| 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 |