All chance synonyms
chance
C c noun chance
- try β to attempt to do or accomplish: Try it before you say it's simple.
- venture β an undertaking involving uncertainty as to the outcome, especially a risky or dangerous one: a mountain-climbing venture.
- speculation β the contemplation or consideration of some subject: to engage in speculation on humanity's ultimate destiny.
- bet β If you bet on the result of a horse race, football game, or other event, you give someone a sum of money which they give you back with extra money if the result is what you predicted, or which they keep if it is not.
- long shot β a horse, team, etc., that has little chance of winning and carries long odds.
- look-in β a brief glance.
- fair shake β an equitable opportunity or treatment: The judges promised that every entrant in the contest would get a fair shake.
- fighting chance β a possibility of success following a struggle.
- bad luck β You can say 'Bad luck', or 'Hard luck', to someone when you want to express sympathy to them.
- good luck β good fortune
- haphazard β characterized by lack of order or planning, by irregularity, or by randomness; determined by or dependent on chance; aimless.
- lucky break β a fortunate and unexpected turn of events
- wheel of fortune β wheel (def 9).
- heads or tails β a gambling game in which a coin is tossed, the winner being the player who guesses which side of the coin will face up when it lands or is caught.
- in the cards β a usually rectangular piece of stiff paper, thin pasteboard, or plastic for various uses, as to write information on or printed as a means of identifying the holder: a 3β³ Γ 5β³ file card; a membership card.
- luck out β the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
verb chance
- speculate β to engage in thought or reflection; meditate (often followed by on, upon, or a clause).
- attempt β If you make an attempt to do something, you try to do it, often without success.
- jeopardize β to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil: He jeopardized his life every time he dived from the tower.
- plunge β to cast or thrust forcibly or suddenly into something, as a liquid, a penetrable substance, a place, etc.; immerse; submerge: to plunge a dagger into one's heart.
- wildcat β any of several North American felines of the genus Lynx. Compare lynx.
- tumble β to fall helplessly down, end over end, as by losing one's footing, support, or equilibrium; plunge headlong: to tumble down the stairs.
- bump β If you bump into something or someone, you accidentally hit them while you are moving.
- light β a light product, as a beer or cigarette.
- meet β greatest lower bound
- stumble β to strike the foot against something, as in walking or running, so as to stagger or fall; trip.
- go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- befall β If something bad or unlucky befalls you, it happens to you.
- transpire β to occur; happen; take place.
- betide β to happen or happen to; befall (often in the phrase woe betide (someone))
- arrive β When a person or vehicle arrives at a place, they come to it at the end of a journey.
- come β When a person or thing comes to a particular place, especially to a place where you are, they move there.
- occur β to happen; take place; come to pass: When did the accident occur?
- luck β Polish name of Lutsk.
- go out on a limb β say sth daring
- play with fire β a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
- toss up β to throw, pitch, or fling, especially to throw lightly or carelessly: to toss a piece of paper into the wastebasket.
- jeopardise β to put in jeopardy; hazard; risk; imperil: He jeopardized his life every time he dived from the tower.
- stick one's neck out β the part of the body of an animal or human being that connects the head and the trunk.
adjective chance
- accidental β An accidental event happens by chance or as the result of an accident, and is not deliberately intended.
- coincidental β Something that is coincidental is the result of a coincidence and has not been deliberately arranged.
- casual β If you are casual, you are, or you pretend to be, relaxed and not very concerned about what is happening or what you are doing.
- fortuitous β happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- unintended β purposed; designed; intentional: an intended snub.
- unplanned β a scheme or method of acting, doing, proceeding, making, etc., developed in advance: battle plans.
- unforeseeable β to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- contingent β A contingent of police, soldiers, or military vehicles is a group of them.
- incidental β happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else.