Nearby Words
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance |
| Synonyms: | Lady Luck, accident, blessing, fluke, fortuitousness, fortunateness, fortune, happenstance, kismet, luck, lucky break |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | event |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | effect, result |
| Synonyms: | aftereffect, aftermath, case, causatum, chance, conclusion, consequence, end, end result, eventuality, fortuity, hap, happenstance, issue, offshoot, outcome, outgrowth, product, resultant, sequel, sequent, termination, upshot |
| Antonyms: | cause, source |
| Main Entry: | fluke |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance occurrence |
| Synonyms: | accident, blessing, break, contingency, fortuity, fortunate, fortune, good fortune, good luck, incident, lucky break, odd chance, quirk, stroke of luck, windfall |
| Antonyms: | certainty, design, plan |
| 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 |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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 |
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