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no chance

NOUN

fat chance

Synonyms

WEAK

chance in a million ghost of a chance impossible no way not a prayer poor outlook poor possibility poor prospect slim chance small chance snowball's chance in hell unthinkable very little chance when hell freezes over

NOUN

long shot

Synonyms

STRONGEST

fluke

WEAK

chance hit hundred-to-one shot little chance long odds lucky shot off-chance one in a million outside chance poor bed slim chance small chance

ADJECTIVE

desperate

Synonyms

STRONGEST

despondent forlorn futile sad vain

STRONG

downcast goner

WEAK

at end of one's rope back to the wall can't win dead duck despairing desponding gone hard up in the soup in the toilet inconsolable irrecoverable irremediable irretrievable no-win running out of time sunk up against it up the creek useless wretched

Antonyms

STRONGEST

cheerful happy hopeful joyful

WEAK

calm confident content contented satisfactory satisfied secure unworried

Example Sentences

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Just a few weeks ago, fed funds futures External link were pricing in no chance of a rate hike by year’s end and a 20% probability of a rate cut.

From Barron's • May 29, 2026

Now there was virtually no chance the fetus’s lungs would develop to reach the edge of viability in seven weeks.

From Salon • May 27, 2026

"He is going away from goal, but then has the nous to put it in the far corner, leaving the goalkeeper no chance at all."

From BBC • May 19, 2026

“There is little to no chance that she will ever be able to repay these loans.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 16, 2026

I keep my Noise as blank as I can but the world’s closing up in folds of light and shimmer so there’s no chance of that.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

no chance

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