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adjective
accidental, unforeseeable
Synonyms: adventitious, at random, casual, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, fortunate, happy, inadvertent, incidental, lucky, odd, offhand, unforeseen, unintentional, unlooked for, unplanned
Antonyms: designed, foreseeable, planned, understood
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noun
possibility, probability
Synonyms: break, contingency, fair shake, fighting chance, indications, liability, likelihood, long shot, look-in, occasion, odds, opening, opportunity, outlook, prospect, scope, shot, show, squeak, time, wager
Antonyms: assurance, certainty, design, law, plan, scheme
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noun
fate, luck
Synonyms: accident, advantage, adventure, bad luck, break, cast, casualty, coincidence, contingency, destination, destiny, doom, even chance, fluke, fortuity, fortune, future, gamble, good luck, hap, haphazard, happening, hazard, heads or tails, hit, in the cards, kismet, lot, lottery, luck out, lucky break, misfortune, occurrence, odds, outcome, peradventure, peril, providence, risk, stroke of luck, throw of the dice, toss-up, turn of the cards, way the cookie crumbles, wheel of fortune
Antonyms: aim, design, plan, scheme
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noun
gamble, risk
Synonyms: bet, craps game, fall of the cards, hazard, jeopardy, lottery, raffle, speculation, stake, throw of the dice, try, venture, wager
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verb
risk, endanger
Synonyms: attempt, cast lots, draw lots, gamble, go out on a limb, have a fling at, hazard, jeopardize, play with fire, plunge, put eggs in one basket, put it on the line, roll the dice, run the risk, skate on thin ice, speculate, stake, stick one’s neck out, take shot in the dark, tempt fate, tempt fortune, toss up, try, venture, wager, wildcat
Antonyms: aim, design, plan, scheme, understand
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verb
happen
Synonyms: arrive, befall, be one’s fate, betide, blunder on, break, bump, come, come about, come off, come to pass, fall out, fall to one’s lot, go, hap, hit upon, light, light upon, luck, meet, occur, stumble, stumble on, transpire, tumble, turn up