Definition for Opportunity:

• Importunity; earnestness.

Synonyms for Opportunity:

• n.

  •
  • business,
  • delegation,
  • excuse,
  • career,
  • background,
  • calling,
  • juncture,
  • division of labor,
  • call,
  • collaboration,
  • hap,
  • appointment,
  • good fortune.
  •
  • Possibilities,
  • the initiative,
  • access.
  •alternative (noun)
  • re-course,
  • take it leave it,
  • re-courses,
  • drutherses,
  • re courses,
  • re course,
  • other fish fry,
  • take or leave it,
  • take leave it,
  • back ups,
  • other fish sea.
  •brass ring (noun)
  • brass-ring.
  •break (noun)
  • stroke luck,
  • favorable circumstance.
  •chance (noun)
  • aimlessness,
  • coincidence,
  • fate,
  • fortuity,
  • purposelessness,
  • luck,
  • adventure,
  • haphazardness,
  • accident,
  • coin toss,
  • fortune,
  • randomness,
  • fluke,
  • happenstance.
  •choice (noun)
  • finding,
  • election.
  •contingency (noun)
  • Cross-road,
  • predicaments,
  • cross-roads,
  • predicament,
  • Exigencies,
  • Uncertainties,
  • if it's cool.
  •convenience (noun)
  • one sweet time,
  • ones own sweet time,
  • ones own sweet times,
  • one's sweet time,
  • one own sweet times,
  • one's own sweet times,
  • ones sweet time,
  • ones sweet times,
  • one sweet times,
  • one's sweet times,
  • whenevers,
  • one own sweet time,
  • suitable times.
  •deal (noun)
  • cut and shuffles,
  • cut and shuffle,
  • cut shuffles,
  • cut shuffle.
  •expedience (noun)
  • efficiency,
  • timeliness,
  • effectiveness,
  • fitness,
  • well-timedness,
  • propriety,
  • suitability,
  • convenience,
  • aptness.
  •expediency/expedience (noun)
  • pragmatisms,
  • meetnesses,
  • profitablenesses,
  • Utilitarianisms,
  • advantageousnesses,
  • judiciousnesses,
  • propitiousnesses.
  •freedom (noun)
  • laxity,
  • leisure,
  • independency,
  • Elbowroom,
  • laissez faire,
  • flexibility,
  • full swing,
  • full play,
  • plenty of rope,
  • Freedoms,
  • Rampancy,
  • own accord.
  •outlook (noun)
  • fore-cast,
  • out looks,
  • fore casts,
  • out-look,
  • fore cast,
  • out look,
  • law averages,
  • normal courses,
  • fore-casts,
  • out-looks.
  •possibility (noun)
  • fifty-fifty,
  • outside chance,
  • attainableness,
  • practicabilities,
  • achievability,
  • workableness,
  • practicability,
  • tossup,
  • likeliness,
  • toss up.
  •resort (noun)
  • re sorts,
  • re-sorts,
  • re sort,
  • re-sort,
  • re lief,
  • re-lief.
  •risk (noun)
  • liablenesses,
  • shot dark,
  • exposednesses,
  • shot the dark,
  • shot in dark.
  •scope (noun)
  • widenesses,
  • ex-tensions,
  • field reference,
  • ex-tension,
  • comprehensivenesses,
  • ex tension.
  •self-government (noun)
  • self-government.
  •shot (noun)
  • sur mises,
  • sur mise,
  • sur-mises,
  • sur-mise.
  •timeliness (noun)
  • well timeds,
  • welltimed,
  • seasonablenesses,
  • well-timeds,
  • welltimeds.
  •vacancy (noun)
  • voidnesses,
  • desertednesses.

• v.

  •approach (verb)
  • door.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • golden opportunity,
  • window of opportunity,
  • inning.
  •
  • hope,
  • vista,
  • glimpse,
  • moment,
  • dream ticket.
  •
  • niche,
  • hearing.
  •
  • liberty,
  • initiative.
  •
  • future.
  •
  • platform.
  •scope
  • free hand.

Paraphrases for Opportunity:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    Opportunities.
  • Proper noun, singular
    chance, chances.
  • Noun, plural
    chances.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    chance.
  • Verb, past tense
    Opportunities.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Opportunities.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    Opportunities.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    shot.

• Independent

  • Proper noun, singular
    Permits, experiences, presents, directions, helps, Efforts, dimensions, bills, data, Programs, leads, women, makes.
  • Noun, plural
    merits, evaluators, sidelines, timelines, panels, spaces.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    men, facility, position, point, Fora, 'occasion, practicability, course.
  • Verb, past tense
    Provided, marked, Had.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    existing, Considering, Allowing, trying, being, expanding, resulting, Arising, marking, giving, Achieving, Having, Doing.
  • Verb, past participle
    permitted, Explored, empowered, Enabled, entitled, Offered, Prevented, Precluded, taught, given.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    exists, represents, needs, reflects, Does, presents, leads, makes.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    opportunistic.
  • Proper noun, singular
    openings, possibility, Possibilities, expectations, Areas, avenues, occasion, potentials, Advisability, ability.
  • Noun, plural
    potentialities, celebrations, openings, Possibilities, avenues, potentials.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    possibility, eventuality, moment, conjunction, occasion, advantage, opportunism, juncture, propriety, permit, suitability, convenience, timing, venue, Advisability, ability, privilege, expedience.
  • Verb, past tense
    possibility, ability.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    Exploring.
  • Verb, 3rd person singular present
    possibility, Possibilities.

Antonyms for Opportunity:

• n.

  • lucky chance; favorable circumstances
    truth, misfortune, reality, closure, bad luck, closing.

Opportunity Sentence Examples:

• He wished the golden opportunity might not be lost.

• Is it a question of opportunity?