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Synonyms for chance
adj accidental, unforeseeable

incidental
contingent
adventitious
casual
fluky

fortuitous
fortunate
happy
inadvertent
lucky

odd
offhand
unforeseen
unintentional
unplanned

at random
unlooked for

Antonyms for chance

planned
understood

designed
foreseeable

Synonyms
noun possibility, probability

prospect
outlook
shot
opportunity
odds
break

time
likelihood
show
opening
liability
scope

squeak
occasion
contingency
wager
long shot
look-in

indications
fair shake
fighting chance

Antonyms

bad luck
misfortune
reality
aim

unlikelihood
truth
assurance
certainty

design
law
plan
scheme

Synonyms
noun fate, luck

hit
risk
advantage
odds
break
future
lot
outcome
fortuity
occurrence
coincidence
casualty

misfortune
lottery
destiny
kismet
destination
providence
toss-up
hap
gamble
hazard
fluke
accident

adventure
doom
peril
fortune
happening
cast
contingency
bad luck
good luck
haphazard
lucky break
stroke of luck

peradventure
wheel of fortune
even chance
heads or tails
in the cards
luck out
throw of the dice
turn of the cards
way the cookie crumbles

Antonyms

loss
disadvantage
protection
safeguard
safety

reality
aim
design
plan
certainty

surety
assurance
law
scheme

Synonyms
noun gamble, risk

raffle
lottery
jeopardy
stake

hazard
try
venture
speculation

wager
bet
craps game
fall of the cards

throw of the dice

Antonyms

protection
safety
reality
abstention

aim
fact
assurance
certainty

design
law
plan
scheme

Synonyms
verb risk, endanger

speculate
stake
attempt
jeopardize
hazard
try
plunge

venture
wager
gamble
wildcat
cast lots
draw lots
go out on a limb

have a fling at
play with fire
put eggs in one basket
put it on the line
roll the dice
run the risk
skate on thin ice

take shot in the dark
tempt fate
tempt fortune
toss up
stick one’s neck out

Antonyms

abstain
aim

design
plan

scheme
understand

Synonyms
verb happen

tumble
bump
light
meet
stumble
break
go

befall
transpire
hap
betide
arrive
come
occur

luck
come about
come off
fall out
turn up
blunder on
come to pass

hit upon
light upon
stumble on
be one’s fate
fall to one’s lot

Antonyms

aim
stay
depart

leave
design
plan

scheme
understand

Concept Thesaurus for word chance
1. CONSTANCY OF SEQUENCE IN EVENTS
Synonyms – noun

chance
hazard
random
contingence
equal chance
turn of the table
fickle finger of fate
flip of a coin
probability
run of luck
favorable odds.
theory of Probabilities
speculation, gaming

indetermination
hap
luck
adventure
lottery
turn of the cards
cast of the dice
wheel of Fortune
possibility
accidentalness
contingency, dependence (uncertainty)
theory of Chances

accident
haphazard
raccroc
hit
tombola
hazard of the die
throw of the dice
sortes
odds
main chance
situation (circumstance)
bookmaking

fortune
chance medley
casualty
fate (necessity)
toss up
chapter of accidents
heads or tails
sortes Virgilianae.
long odds
odds on
statistics
assurance

Synonyms – verbs

chance
be one’s fate[more]

hap
stumble on

turn up
light upon

fall to one’s lot
take one’s chance[more]

Synonyms – adjectives

casual
causeless
undetermined
possible

fortuitous
incidental
indeterminate
unintentional

accidental
contingent
random

adventitious
uncaused
statistical

Synonyms – phrases
“grasps the skirts of happy chance” [Tennyson]; “the accident of an accident” [Lord Thurlow]; “There but for the grace of God go I.”
Antonyms

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