chancest

Main Entry:
chance [chans, chahns]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: accidental, unforeseeable
Synonyms: adventitious, at random, casual, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, fortunate, happy, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, odd, offhand, unforeseen, unintentional, unlooked for, unplanned
Antonyms: designed, foreseeable, planned, understood
Main Entry: accidental
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: happening unexpectedly
Synonyms: adventitious, casual, chance, coincidental, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, random, uncalculated, unexpected, unforeseen, unintended, unintentional, unplanned
Notes: accidental stresses chance; fortuitous so strongly suggests chance that it often connotes absence of cause
Antonyms: decided, designed, essential, intended, intentional, planned, premeditated
Main Entry: aimless
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having no goal
Synonyms: accidental, any which way, bits-and-pieces, blind, capricious, careless, casual, chance, desultory, directionless, drifting, erratic, fanciful, fickle, fits and starts, flighty, fortuitous, frivolous, goalless, haphazard, heedless, hit-or-miss, indecisive, indiscriminate, irresolute, objectless, pointless, purposeless, random, shiftless, stray, thoughtless, unavailing, undirected, unguided, unplanned, unpredictable, vagrant, wandering, wanton, wayward
Antonyms: determined, directed, goal-oriented, motivated, pointed, purposeful, resolute
Main Entry: coincidental
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: accidental
Synonyms: casual, chance, circumstantial, fluky, fortuitous, incidental, unintentional, unplanned
Antonyms: decided, deliberate, designed, planned
Main Entry: contingent
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: conditional; possible
Synonyms: accidental, casual, chance, controlled by, dependent, fluky, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, likely, odd, probable, probably, random, subject to, unanticipated, uncertain, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unpredictable
Antonyms: certain, definite, real, sure, truthful, unconditional
Main Entry: desultory
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: random
Synonyms: aimless, chance, chaotic, deviating, erratic, haphazard, orderless, rambling, unmethodical, unstable, unsystematic, without purpose
Main Entry: fortuitous
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: lucky, accidental
Synonyms: arbitrary, casual, chance, contingent, fluke, fluky, fortunate, haphazard, happy, incidental, luck in, luck out, lucky-dog, odd, providential, random, serendipitous, unforeseen, unplanned
Notes: accidental stresses chance; fortuitous so strongly suggests chance that it often connotes absence of cause
aleatory refers to the present or future while fortuitous is more about past events
fortunate means having unexpected good fortune or luck; fortuitous means happening by chance or coming or occurring by accident or without any known cause
Antonyms: calculated, deliberate, designed, intentional, planned, unlucky
Main Entry: haphazard
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: without plan or organization
Synonyms: accidental, aimless, all over the map, any old way, any which way, arbitrary, careless, casual, chance, designless, desultory, devil-may-care, disorderly, disorganized, erratic, fluke, helter-skelter, hit-or-miss, incidental, indiscriminate, irregular, loose, offhand, purposeless, random, reckless, slapdash, slipshod, spontaneous, sudden, unconcerned, unconscious, unconsidered, uncoordinated, unexpected, unmethodical, unorganized, unpremeditated, unsystematic, unthinking, willy-nilly
Antonyms: careful, designed, intentional, methodical, organized, planned, straight, systematic, thought-out
Main Entry: hit-or-miss
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: random
Synonyms: accidental, aimless, arbitrary, casual, chance, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, haphazard, incidental, irregular, slipshod, trial-and error, unplanned, unpremeditated
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