Chances

Synonyms for chance
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 for chances

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 chances
1. Conceptional Volition
Synonyms – noun

chance
mascot.
game of chance
leap in the dark
faro bank
sortilegy
rouge et noir
crack-loo [U.S.]
pitch and toss
heads or talls
bet
gaming house
joint
betting ring
gambler

lot, fate (necessity)
speculation
mere shot
pig in a poke (uncertainty)
flyer
sortition
hazard
craps
chuck
cross and pile
betting
gambling house
totalizator
dice
gamester

luck
venture
random shot
fluke
limit.
sortes
ante
faro
farthing
poker-dice
gambling
betting house
totalizer
dice box
man of the turf

good luck (good)
stake
blind bargain
potluck
drawing lots
sortes Virgilianae
chuck-a-luck
roulette
cup tossing
wager
the turf.
bucket shop
hell
dicer
adventurer.

Synonyms – verbs

chance (hap)
draw lots
trust to the chapter of accidents
run the risk
encounter the risk
try one’s luck
buy a pig in a poke
hazard
lay a wager
gamble

stand a chance (be possible)
leave to chance
tempt fortune
run the chance
encounter the chance
set on a cast
shuffle the cards.
stake
make a bet
game

toss up
trust to chance
chance it
incur the risk
stand the hazard of the die.
raffle
risk
ante
wager
play for

cast lots
leave to the chapter of accidents
take one’s chance
incur the chance
speculate
put into a lottery
venture
lay
bet
play at chuck farthing.

Synonyms – adjectives

fortuitous
not meant
unforeseen
undirected
designless
possible

unintentional
undesigned
never thought of.
random
purposeless

unintended
purposed
indiscriminate
aimless
causeless

accidental
unpremeditated
promiscuous
driftless
without purpose.

Synonyms – phrases
acierta errando; dextro tempore; “fearful concatenation of circumstances” [D. Webster]; “fortuitous combination of circumstances” [Dickens]; le jeu est le fils d’avarice et le pere du desespoic; “the happy combination of fortuitous circumstances” [Scott]; “the fortuitous or casual concourse of
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