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[kahrd] 
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| Main Entry: |
chance
[chans, chahns]
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| 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
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| Main Entry: | doomed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | condemned, hopeless |
| Synonyms: | bedeviled, bewitched, convicted, cursed, cut down, damned, dead duck, destroyed, done, done for, fated, fey, foreordained, ill-fated, ill-omened, in the cards, kiss of death, lost, luckless, menaced, overthrown, overwhelmed, predestined, que sera sera, reprobate, ruined, sentenced, star-crossed, sunk, suppressed, threatened, thrown down, undone, unfortunate, unredeemed, wrecked |
| Antonyms: | hopeful, lucky |
| Main Entry: | eventual |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | future, concluding |
| Synonyms: | closing, conditional, consequent, contingent, dependent, down the pike, down the road, ending, endmost, ensuing, final, hindmost, in the cards, indirect, inevitable, last, later, latter, overall, possible, prospective, resulting, secondary, succeeding, terminal, ulterior, ultimate, vicarious |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | expect |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | believe strongly; anticipate |
| Synonyms: | apprehend, assume, await, bargain for, bargain on, be afraid, calculate, conjecture, contemplate, count on, divine, envisage, feel, figure, forecast, foreknow, foresee, gather, hope, hope for, imagine, in the cards, look, look ahead to, look for, look forward to, predict, presume, presuppose, reckon, see coming, sense, suppose, surmise, suspect, take, think, trust, understand, wait for, watch for |
| Main Entry: | forecast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | predict, guess |
| Synonyms: | adumbrate, anticipate, augur, calculate, call the turn, conclude, conjecture, demonstrate, determine, divine, dope out, estimate, figure, figure out*, foresee, foretell, gather, gauge, in the cards, infer, plan, portend, predetermine, presage, prognosticate, prophesy, reason, see it coming, soothsay, surmise, telegraph |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forthcoming |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | expected, imminent |
| Synonyms: | accessible, anticipated, approaching, at hand, available, awaited, coming, destined, fated, future, impending, in evidence, in preparation, in prospect, in store, in the cards, in the wind, inescapable, inevitable, nearing, obtainable, on tap, oncoming, open, pending, predestined, prospective, ready, resulting, upcoming |
| Antonyms: | bygone, distant, gone, past |
| Main Entry: | future |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | to come; expected |
| Synonyms: | approaching, booked, budgeted, close at hand, coming, coming up, destined, down the line, down the pike, down the road, eventual, fated, final, forthcoming, from here in, from here on, from here to eternity, from now on in, imminent, impending, in the cards, in the course of time, in the offing, inevitable, just around the corner, later, likely, looked toward, near, next, planned, prospective, scheduled, subsequent, to be, ulterior, ultimate, unborn, unfolding, up |
| Antonyms: | past |
| Main Entry: | imminent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | at hand, on the way |
| Synonyms: | about to happen, approaching, brewing, close, coming, expectant, fast-approaching, following, forthcoming, gathering, handwriting-on-the-wall, immediate, impending, in store, in the air, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, in view, ineluctable, inescapable, inevasible, inevitable, likely, looming, menacing, near, nearing, next, nigh, on its way, on the horizon, on the verge, overhanging, possible, probable, see it coming, threatening, to come, unavoidable, unescapable |
| Notes: | if you mean 'famous' or 'superior,' you want eminent; if you mean 'impending, about to happen' that is imminent; and if you mean 'present, inherent,' your word is immanent imminent is 'about to happen' and immanent is 'inherent' or 'pervading the material world' |
| Antonyms: | distant, doubtful, far, future, later |
| Main Entry: | impending |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | forthcoming |
| Synonyms: | approaching, at hand, brewing, coming, gathering, handwriting-on-the-wall, hovering, imminent, in the cards, in the offing, in the wind, looking to, looming, menacing, near, nearing, ominous, on the horizon, overhanging, portending, proximate, see it coming, threatening, waiting to |
| Antonyms: | distant, later, never, remote |
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