Synonyms: chance
Definition: a risk involving danger
Usage: you take a chance when you let her drive
Similar words: risk, danger, peril
Definition: a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury
Usage: he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime; there was a danger he would do the wrong thing
Synonyms: chance, probability
Definition: 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
Usage: the probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5
Similar words: quantity, measure, amount
Definition: how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify
Synonyms: fortune, luck, chance, hazard
Definition: an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another
Usage: bad luck caused his downfall; we ran into each other by pure chance
Similar words: phenomenon
Definition: any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning
Definition: the possibility of future success
Usage: his prospects as a writer are excellent
Similar words: potency, potential, potentiality
Definition: the inherent capacity for coming into being
Synonyms: chance, opportunity
Definition: a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances
Usage: the holiday gave us the opportunity to visit Washington; now is your chance
Similar words: possibility, possibleness
Definition: capability of existing or happening or being true
Usage: there is a possibility that his sense of smell has been impaired
Synonyms: take a chance, take chances, adventure, run a risk, chance, hazard, gamble, risk
Definition: take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome
Usage: When you buy these stocks you are gambling
Similar words: essay, seek, assay, attempt, try
Definition: make an effort or attempt
Usage: He tried to shake off his fears; The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps; The police attempted to stop the thief; He sought to improve himself; She always seeks to do good in the world
Synonyms: chance
Definition: be the case by chance
Usage: I chanced to meet my old friend in the street
Similar words: come about, take place, go on, hap, happen, fall out, pass, pass off, occur
Definition: come to pass
Usage: What is happening?; The meeting took place off without an incidence; Nothing occurred that seemed important
Definition: occurring or appearing or singled out by chance
Usage: seek help from casual passers-by; a casual meeting; a chance occurrence
Similar words: unplanned
Definition: without apparent forethought or prompting or planning
Usage: an unplanned economy; accepts an unplanned order; an unplanned pregnancy; unplanned remarks