Entry Word: luck

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 success that is partly the result of chance <some people have all the luck>

Synonyms fortunateness, fortune, luckiness

Related Words break, fluke, godsend, hit, serendipity, strike, windfall; chance, opportunity; coup, stroke

Near Antonyms knock, misadventure, mishap; adversity, curse, sorrow, tragedy, trouble; calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster; defeat, failure, fizzle, nonsuccess; accident, casualty; disappointment, letdown, setback; circumstance, destiny, doom, fate, lot, portion

Antonyms mischance, misfortune, unluckiness

2 the uncertain course of events <letʼs plan our vacation rather than leave everything to luck> — see chance 1