chance - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a risk involving danger

Synonyms

• chance

More generic

• danger
• peril
• risk

Noun

a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible

Synonyms

• chance
• probability

More generic

• amount
• measure
• quantity

More specific

• conditional probability
• contingent probability
• cross section
• exceedance
• fair chance
• fat chance
• joint probability
• risk
• risk of exposure
• risk of infection
• slim chance
• sporting chance

Noun

an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

Synonyms

• chance
• fortune
• hazard
• luck

More generic

• phenomenon

More specific

• bad luck
• even chance
• mischance
• mishap
• toss-up
• tossup

Noun

the possibility of future success

Synonyms

• chance
• prospect

More generic

• potency
• potential
• potentiality

Noun

a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

Synonyms

• chance
• opportunity

More generic

• possibility
• possibleness

More specific

• audience
• brass ring
• clean slate
• crack
• day
• fresh start
• hearing
• hunting ground
• occasion
• opening
• room
• say
• shot
• street
• tabula rasa
• throw

Verb

come upon, as if by accident; meet with

Synonyms

• bump
• chance
• encounter
• find
• happen

Verb

take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

Synonyms

• adventure
• chance
• gamble
• hazard
• risk
• run a risk
• take a chance
• take chances

More generic

• assay
• attempt
• essay
• seek
• try

More specific

• go for broke
• luck it
• luck through

Verb

be the case by chance

Synonyms

• chance

More generic

• come about
• fall out
• go on
• hap
• happen
• occur
• pass
• pass off
• take place

More specific

• happen

Adjective

occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

Synonyms

• casual
• chance

Related

• unplanned

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