accident

Main Entry:
accident [ak-si-duhnt]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: unexpected, undesirable event; often physically injurious
Synonyms: blow, calamity, casualty, collision, crack-up, disaster, fender-bender, fluke, hazard, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, pileup, rear ender, setback, smash*, smashup, stack-up, total*, wrack-up
Antonyms: intent, intention, necessity, plan, provision
Main Entry: act of God
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: divine act
Synonyms: accident, circumstances beyond one's control, earthquake, force majeure, freak accident, hurricane, inevitable accident, marvel, natural disaster, phenomenon, supernatural event, tornado, unavoidable casualty, unforeseen event, vis major, wonder
Main Entry: break
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: lucky happening
Synonyms: accident, advantage, chance, favorable circumstances, fortune, good luck, luck, occasion, opening, opportunity, shot, show, stroke of luck, time
Notes: to brake is to slow or stop while break is to cause to separate into pieces suddenly or violently, smash or crack
Antonyms: bad luck, misfortune
Main Entry: catastrophe
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: calamity; unhappy conclusion
Synonyms: accident, adversity, affliction, alluvion, bad luck, bad news, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, contretemps, crash, culmination, curtains, debacle, denouement, desolation, devastation, disaster, emergency, end, failure, fatality, fiasco, finale, grief, hardship, havoc, ill, infliction, meltdown, misadventure, mischance, misery, misfortune, mishap, reverse, scourge, stroke, termination, the worst, tragedy, trial, trouble, upshot, waterloo, wreck
Antonyms: benefit, blessing, favor, good fortune, good luck, happiness, miracle, success, wonder
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: coincidence
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: accidental happening
Synonyms: accident, chance, eventuality, fate, fluke, fortuity, happening, happy accident, incident, luck, stroke of luck
Antonyms: design, plan, scheme
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: crash
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: collision, accidental hitting
Synonyms: accident, bump, collapse, concussion, crack-up, crunch, debacle, ditch, fender bender, fender tag, impact, jar, jolt, percussion, pileup, ram, rear-ender, shock, sideswipe, smash, smashup, splashdown, stack-up, thud, thump, total*, washout, wreck
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