Definition for Chance:

• Occurring by chance; casual.

Synonyms for Chance:

• adj.

  •accidental (adjective)
  • uncalculated,
  • random,
  • accidental,
  • lucky,
  • fortunate,
  • purposeless,
  • causeless,
  • adventitious,
  • fatal,
  • fluky,
  • casual.
  •accidental, unforeseeable (adjective)
  • happy,
  • unplanned,
  • unforeseen,
  • at random,
  • offhand.
  •chancy (adjective)
  • coin toss,
  • speculative,
  • risky,
  • uncertain,
  • hazardous,
  • potluck.
  •changeable (adjective)
  • unpredictable.
  •surprising (adjective)
  • unexpected,
  • unpredicted.
  •unnecessary (adjective)
  • inessential,
  • unrequired,
  • unneeded.
  •unpredictable (adjective)
  • unforeseeable.

• n.

  •
  • arbitrary,
  • involuntary,
  • coincidental.
  •
  • choice,
  • Possibilities,
  • try,
  • attempt,
  • scope.
  •
  • surprise.
  •contingency (noun)
  • likelihood.
  •gamble, risk (noun)
  • raffle,
  • craps game,
  • speculation.
  •leisure (noun)
  • leisure.
  •lottery (noun)
  • lottery.
  •occurrence (noun)
  • happening.
  •possibility, probability (noun)
  • show,
  • indications,
  • look-in,
  • long shot,
  • squeak,
  • opportunity,
  • fair shake,
  • fighting chance.
  •probability (noun)
  • aptness,
  • proneness,
  • possibility.
  •prospect (noun)
  • in the cards.
  •room (noun)
  • room.
  •spare time (noun)
  • convenience.

• v.

  •chance (verb)
  • gamble,
  • speculate,
  • risk.
  •happen (verb)
  • turn up,
  • come about,
  • bump,
  • stumble on,
  • stumble,
  • come,
  • tumble,
  • be one's fate,
  • blunder on,
  • hit upon,
  • arrive,
  • luck,
  • light,
  • fall to one's lot,
  • light upon,
  • meet.
  •risk, endanger (verb)
  • put it on the line,
  • have a fling at,
  • take shot in the dark,
  • plunge,
  • cast lots,
  • draw lots,
  • tempt fate,
  • wildcat,
  • put eggs in one basket.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • extemporize,
  • fortuitousness,
  • potentiality,
  • circumstance,
  • feasibility,
  • dare,
  • sporting chance,
  • happenchance.
  •
  • tendency,
  • moment,
  • indiscriminate,
  • occasion,
  • glimpse,
  • hope.
  •
  • improvise,
  • uncertainty,
  • threat,
  • inadvertent.
  •
  • compromise,
  • shot,
  • odds.
  •
  • drift,
  • opening.
  •
  • float.
  •endanger
  • put at risk,
  • stick one's neck out,
  • chance it,
  • jeopardize,
  • put in danger.
  •happen
  • crop up,
  • come into existence,
  • present itself,
  • come into being,
  • fall.
  •happen upon
  • come upon.
  •opportuneness
  • timeliness.
  •random
  • blind.
  •stumble
  • run across.

Paraphrases for Chance:

• Equivalence

  • Proper noun, singular
    opportunity, Opportunities.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    opportunity, Opportunities.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    danger.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    fortunate.
  • Proper noun, singular
    bills.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    Lectures, shot, choice, adventitious, expectation, way, blessing, chanceto, hope, break, moment, hypothesis, success.
  • Verb, non-3rd person singular present
    are, AM, hope.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    coincidence, option, accident, eventuality, randomness, scope.

Antonyms for Chance:

• adj.

  • accidental, unforeseeable
    designed, understood, planned, foreseeable.
  • Other antonyms:
    predictable, calculation, premeditated, certainty, appointment, ordinance, law, foreseen, fate, decree, Prepense, predestined, sure, volunteer, plan, willful, Ordainment, preordained, provision, intention, purpose, inevitable, necessity, unforced, certain, fixed, preparation, destined, foreordained, foreordination, prescribed, expected, predetermined, premeditative, knowing.

• n.

  • fate, luck
    surety, safeguard, protection, safety, disadvantage, loss.
  • gamble, risk
    abstention, fact.
  • possibility, probability
    reality, design, scheme, aim, unlikelihood, bad luck, truth, assurance, misfortune.

• v.

  • happen
    depart, stay, leave.
  • risk, endanger
    abstain, understand.

Hypernym for Chance:

• n.

  • state
    shot, fresh start, clean slate, street, room, day, say, throw, brass ring, tabula rasa, audience, occasion, hearing, crack, hunting ground, opening.

• v.

  • social
    happen.

Hyponym for Chance:

• n.

  • act
    danger, risk, peril.
  • state
    possibility, possibleness.

• v.

  • social
    occur, hap, pass, come about, take place, go on, pass off, fall out, happen.