| 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: | destiny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate |
Synonyms: |
Moirai, afterlife, break*, breaks, certainty, circumstance, conclusion, condition, constellation, course of events, cup, design, divine decree, doom, expectation, finality, foreordination, fortune, future, happenstance, hereafter, horoscope, inevitability, intent, intention, karma, kismet*, lot, luck, objective, ordinance, portion, predestination, predetermination, prospect, serendipity, the stars, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles, what is written, wheel of fortune, world to come |
Antonyms: |
choice, free will, volition |
| Main Entry: | fate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | predetermined course |
Synonyms: |
Moirai, break, chance, circumstance, consequence, cup*, destination, destiny, divine will, doom, effect, end, ending, fortune, future, handwriting on the wall, horoscope, inescapableness, issue, karma, kismet, lot, luck, nemesis, outcome, portion, predestination, providence, stars, termination, upshot, wheel of fortune |
| Notes: | fate is an event or a course of events that will inevitably happen in the future or the supposed force or power that predetermines events while a fete is an elaborate, usually outdoor, party or festival |
| 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: | lot |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, destiny |
Synonyms: |
Moirai, accident, break, breaks, chance, circumstance, decree, doom, foreordination, fortune, hand one is dealt, hazard, karma, kismet, plight, portion, predestination, run of luck, way cookie crumbles, wheel of fortune |
| Main Entry: | Lady Luck |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | good luck |
Synonyms: |
Chance, Dame Fortune, Fortuna, Fortune, Lady Fortune, Luck, fate, wheel of fortune |
| Main Entry: | wheel of fortune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wheel of chance |
Synonyms: |
big six wheel, fortune's wheel, gambling wheel, raffle wheel, roulette wheel |
| Main Entry: | game of chance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | game depending on luck |
Synonyms: |
bingo, bridge, canasta, craps, crazy eights, gambling game, gin, gin rummy, lottery, lotto, penny ante, pinochle, poker, roulette, twenty-one, wheel of fortune |
| Main Entry: | predestinate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fate |
Synonyms: |
Moirai, break*, chance, circumstance, consequence, cup*, destination, destine, destiny, divine will, doom, effect, end, ending, foreordain, fortune, future, handwriting on the wall, horoscope, inescapableness, issue, karma*, kismet*, lot, luck, nemesis, outcome, portion, predestination, predestine, predetermine, preordain, providence, stars*, termination, upshot, wheel of fortune |
| Main Entry: | predestine |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | fate |
Synonyms: |
Moirai, break*, chance, circumstance, consequence, cup*, destination, destine, destiny, divine will, doom, effect, end, ending, foreordain, fortune, future, handwriting on the wall, horoscope, inescapableness, issue, karma*, kismet*, lot, luck, nemesis, outcome, portion, predestinate, predestination, predetermine, preordain, providence, stars*, termination, upshot, wheel of fortune |