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| Main Entry: | chance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | risk, endanger |
| Synonyms: | attempt, cast lots, draw lots, gamble, go out on a limb, have a fling at, hazard, jeopardize, play with fire, plunge, put eggs in one basket, put it on the line, roll the dice, run the risk, skate on thin ice, speculate, stake, stick one's neck out, take shot in the dark, tempt fate, tempt fortune, toss up, try, venture, wager, wildcat |
| Antonyms: | aim, design, plan, scheme, understand |
| Main Entry: | gamble |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance, speculation |
| Synonyms: | action, bet, fling, leap*, long shot, lottery, outside chance, raffle, risk, shot in the dark, spec, stab*, throw of the dice, toss up, uncertainty, venture, wager |
| Notes: | a gamble (noun) is a risky act, venture, bet, or wager - to gamble (verb) is to take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome; a gambol (noun) a skipping or leaping about in frolic - to gambol (verb) is to dance and skip about in play or to frolic |
| Antonyms: | design, guard, insurance, plan, protection, safeguard |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | eventuality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that probably will happen |
| Synonyms: | aftereffect, aftermath, any case, case, chance, consequence, contingency, effect, event, go-down, goings-on, happening, issue, likelihood, outcome, possibility, probability, result, sequel, toss-up, upshot |
| Antonyms: | improbability, unlikelihood |
| Main Entry: | hazard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | luck, chance |
| Synonyms: | accident, adventure, coincidence, dynamite, fling*, fluke, go*, hundred-to-one, long shot, lucky break, lucky hit, misfortune, mishap, possibility, risk, risky business, stroke of luck, toss-up, venture, wager, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles |
| Antonyms: | assurance, certainty, determination, fact, proof, reality, surety |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | likelihood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | chance of something happening |
| Synonyms: | coin flip, direction, even break, fair shake, fifty-fifty, fighting chance, good chance, liability, likeliness, long shot, outside chance, plausibility, possibility, presumption, probability, prospect, reasonableness, shot at, strong possibility, tendency, toss-up, trend |
| Antonyms: | unlikelihood |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | odds |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | probability |
| Synonyms: | balance, chances, favor, likelihood, superiority, toss-up |
| Antonyms: | improbability, unlikelihood |
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