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chance

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of chance

happening by chance

  • a chance advantage that I immediately recognized and made full use of
Synonyms of chance

accidental, casual, fluky (also flukey), fortuitous, inadvertent, incidental, unintended, unintentional, unplanned, unpremeditated, unwitting
Words Related to chance

coincidental

freak, odd

aimless, arbitrary, desultory, haphazard, random

uncertain, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen

coerced, forced, involuntary

unconscious, unprompted
Near Antonyms of chance

certain, destined, expected, fixed, foreordained, foreseeable, foreseen, inevitable, predestined, predetermined, predictable, preordained, prescribed, sure

conscious, freewill, knowing, unforced, voluntary, volunteer, willful (or wilful)
Antonyms of chance

calculated, deliberate, intended, intentional, planned, premeditated, premeditative, prepense, set

chance

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of chance

1 the uncertain course of events

  • rather than leave everything to chance, letʼs plan how weʼre going to spend our time in New York City
Synonyms of chance

accident, casualty [archaic], circumstance, hap, hazard, luck
Words Related to chance

fortuitousness, fortuity, haphazardry, randomness, uncertainty

fluke, happenchance, happenstance

destiny, doom, fate, fortune, lot

danger, peril, risk
Near Antonyms of chance

intent, intention, purpose

design, outline, plan, scheme

2 a favorable combination of circumstances, time, and place

  • this is my one chance to succeed
Synonyms of chance

break, occasion, opening, opportunity, room, shot
Words Related to chance

play, way

juncture, pass

3 a measure of how often an event will occur instead of another

  • the chance of being struck by lightning is very low
Synonyms of chance

odds, percentage, probability
Words Related to chance

outlook, prospect

contingency, possibility, potential, potentiality

conditional probability

4 a risky undertaking

  • it's a chance, but I think the business will be profitable
Synonyms of chance

adventure, crapshoot, enterprise, flier (also flyer), flutter [chiefly British], gamble, speculation, throw, venture
Words Related to chance

bet, hazard, stake, wager

liberty

dark horse, long shot, play
Antonyms of chance

sure thing

chance

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of chance

1 to take a chance on

  • I don't think we should chance driving in this snowstorm
Synonyms of chance

adventure, gamble (on), hazard, risk, tempt, venture
Words Related to chance

beard, brave, brazen, breast, challenge, confront, dare, defy, face, outbrave

compromise, endanger, imperil, jeopardize, menace

expose, subject

bet (on), wager
Phrases Synonymous with chance

run the risk of

2 to take place

  • there chanced to be a beautiful day when we were touring that part of Scotland
Synonyms of chance

be, befall, betide, come, come about, come down, come off, cook, do, go down [slang], go on, hap, happen, occur, pass, transpire
Words Related to chance

break, develop, rise, shape (up)

arise, come up, crop (up), materialize, spring (up)

intervene

fall out, follow, result, turn out

go off, proceed
Phrases Synonymous with chance

come to pass

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