Synonyms of the word

chance

• n. (countable) An opportunity or possibility.
• n. (uncountable) Random occurrence; luck.
• n. (countable) The probability of something happening.
• n. (countable, archaic) What befalls or happens to a person; their lot or fate.
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To happen by chance, to occur.
• v. (archaic, transitive) To befall; to happen to.
• v. To try or risk.
• v. To discover something by chance.
• v. (Belize) To rob, cheat or swindle someone.
• adj. (rare) Happening by chance, casual.

accidental

• adj. Not essential; incidental, secondary.
• adj. (philosophy) Nonessential to something's inherent nature (especially in Aristotelian thought).
• adj. (music) Adjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.
• adj. Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.
• adj. Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident,…
• adj. (geometry) Being a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.
• n. A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
• n. (painting, plural only) Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects…
• n. (music) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature,…

adventure

• n. The encountering of risks; hazardous and striking enterprise; a bold undertaking, in which hazards are…
• n. A remarkable occurrence; a striking event.
• n. A mercantile or speculative enterprise of hazard; a venture; a shipment by a merchant on his own account.
• n. (uncountable) A feeling of desire for new and exciting things.
• n. (video games) A text adventure or an adventure game.
• n. (obsolete) That which happens by chance; hazard; hap.
• n. (obsolete) Chance of danger or loss.
• n. (obsolete) Risk; danger; peril.
• v. (transitive) To risk or hazard; jeopard; venture.
• v. (transitive) To venture upon; to run the risk of; to dare.
• v. (intransitive) To try the chance; to take the risk.

amount

• n. The total, aggregate or sum of material (not applicable to discrete numbers or units or items in standard…
• n. A quantity or volume.
• n. (nonstandard, sometimes proscribed) The number (the sum) of elements in a set.
• v. (intransitive, followed by to) To total or evaluate.
• v. (intransitive, followed by to) To be the same as or equivalent to.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To go up; to ascend.

assay

• n. Trial, attempt, essay.
• n. Examination and determination; test.
• n. The qualitative or quantitative chemical analysis of something.
• n. Trial by danger or by affliction; adventure; risk; hardship; state of being tried.
• n. Tested purity or value.
• n. The act or process of ascertaining the proportion of a particular metal in an ore or alloy; especially,…
• n. The alloy or metal to be assayed.
• v. (transitive) To attempt (something).
• v. (archaic, intransitive) To try, attempt (to do something).
• v. (transitive) To analyze or estimate the composition or value of (a metal, ore etc.).
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To test the abilities of (someone) in combat; to fight.
• v. To affect.
• v. To try tasting, as food or drink.

attempt

• v. To try.
• v. (obsolete) To try to move, by entreaty, by afflictions, or by temptations; to tempt.
• v. (archaic) To try to win, subdue, or overcome.
• v. (archaic) To attack; to make an effort or attack upon; to try to take by force.
• n. The action of trying at something.
• n. An assault or attack, especially an assassination attempt.

bump

• n. A light blow or jolting collision.
• n. The sound of such a collision.
• n. A protuberance on a level surface.
• n. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
• n. One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or…
• n. (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to…
• n. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
• n. (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning…
• n. A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
• n. (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
• n. The noise made by the bittern; a boom.
• n. A coarse cotton fabric.
• n. A training match for a fighting dog.
• n. (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
• v. To knock against or run into with a jolt.
• v. To move up or down by a step.
• v. (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it…
• v. (chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
• v. (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
• v. (transitive) To move the time of a scheduled event.
• v. (archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
• interj. (Internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to…

casual

• adj. Happening by chance.
• adj. Coming without regularity; occasional or incidental.
• adj. Employed irregularly.
• adj. Careless.
• adj. Happening or coming to pass without design.
• adj. Informal, relaxed.
• adj. Designed for informal or everyday use.
• n. (Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A worker who is only working for a company occasionally, not as its…
• n. A soldier temporarily at a place of duty, usually en route to another place of duty.
• n. (Britain) A member of a group of football hooligans who wear expensive designer clothing to avoid police…
• n. One who receives relief for a night in a parish to which he does not belong; a vagrant.
• n. (video games, informal) A player of casual games.
• n. (dated) (Britain) A tramp.

danger

• n. (obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.
• n. (obsolete) Liability.
• n. (obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.
• n. (obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.
• n. (obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.
• n. Exposure to liable harm.
• n. An instance or cause of liable harm.
• n. Mischief.
• n. (mainly outside US, rail transport) The stop indication of a signal. (usually used in the phrase "at danger").
• v. (obsolete) To claim liability.
• v. (obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.
• v. (obsolete) To run the risk.

encounter

• v. (transitive) To meet (someone) or find (something) unexpectedly.
• v. (transitive) To confront (someone or something) face to face.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.
• n. An unplanned or unexpected meeting.
• n. A hostile meeting; a confrontation or skirmish.
• n. A sudden, often violent clash, as between combatants.
• n. (sports) A match between two opposing sides.

essay

• n. A written composition of moderate length exploring a particular issue or subject.
• n. (obsolete) A test, experiment; an assay.
• n. (now rare) An attempt.
• v. (dated, transitive) To try.
• v. (intransitive) To move forth, as into battle.

find

• v. (transitive) To encounter or discover by accident; to happen upon.
• v. (transitive) To encounter or discover something being searched for; to locate.
• v. (transitive) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end.
• v. (transitive) To gain, as the object of desire or effort.
• v. (transitive) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
• v. (transitive) To point out.
• v. (transitive) To decide that, to discover that, to form the opinion that.
• v. (transitive) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To supply; to furnish.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To provide for.
• v. (intransitive, law) To determine or judge.
• v. (intransitive, hunting) To discover game.
• n. Anything that is found (usually valuable), as objects on an archeological site or a person with talent.
• n. The act of finding.

fortune

• n. Destiny, especially favorable.
• n. A prediction or set of predictions about a person's future provided by a fortune teller.
• n. A small slip of paper with wise or vaguely prophetic words printed on it, baked into a fortune cookie.
• n. The arrival of something in a sudden or unexpected manner; chance; accident.
• n. Good luck.
• n. One's wealth; the amount of money one has; especially, if it is vast.
• n. A large amount of money.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To happen, take place.
• v. To provide with a fortune.
• v. To presage; to tell the fortune of.

gamble

• n. A significant risk, undertaken with a potential gain.
• n. A risky venture.
• v. To take a risk, with the potential of a positive outcome.
• v. To play risky games, especially casino games, for monetary gain.
• v. (transitive) To risk (something) for potential gain.
• v. To interact with equipment at a casino.

hap

• n. (archaic) That which happens; an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance, or…
• v. (intransitive, literary) to happen; to befall; to chance.
• v. (transitive, literary) To happen to.
• n. (Britain, Scotland, Western Pennsylvania, dialect) A wrap, such as a quilt or a comforter. Also, a small…
• v. (dialect) To wrap, clothe.
• n. Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.

happen

• v. To occur or take place.
• v. To occur unexpectedly, by chance or with a low probability.
• v. (followed by on or upon) To encounter by chance.
• adv. (obsolete or dialect) maybe, perhaps.

hazard

• n. (historical) A type of game played with dice.
• n. Chance.
• n. The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss.
• n. An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally.
• n. (golf) A sand or water obstacle on a golf course.
• n. (billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing…
• n. (obsolete) Anything that is hazarded or risked, such as a stake in gambling.
• v. To expose to chance; to take a risk.
• v. To risk (something); to venture, to incur, or bring on.

luck

• n. Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence, especially a favourable one.
• n. A superstitious feeling that brings fortune or success.
• n. success.
• v. (intransitive) To succeed by chance.
• v. (intransitive) To rely on luck.
• v. (transitive) To carry out relying on luck.

measure

• n. A prescribed quantity or extent.
• n. The act or result of measuring.
• n. Metrical rhythm.
• n. A course of action.
• v. To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.
• v. To estimate the unit size of something.
• v. To judge, value, or appraise.
• v. To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.
• v. (rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.
• v. To adjust by a rule or standard.
• v. To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

occur

• v. To happen or take place.
• v. To present or offer (itself).
• v. (impersonal) To come or be presented to the mind; to suggest (itself).
• v. (sciences) To be present or found.

opportunity

• n. A chance for advancement, progress or profit.
• n. A favorable circumstance or occasion.
• n. (nonstandard, Euro-English) opportuneness.

pass

• v. (heading) Physical movement.
• v. (heading) To change in state or status, to advance.
• v. (heading) To move through time.
• v. (heading) To be accepted.
• v. (intransitive) In any game, to decline to play in one's turn.
• v. (heading) To do or be better.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To take heed.
• n. An opening, road, or track, available for passing; especially, one through or over some dangerous or otherwise…
• n. A channel connecting a river or body of water to the sea, for example at the mouth (delta) of a river.
• n. A single movement, especially of a hand, at, over, or along anything.
• n. A single passage of a tool over something, or of something over a tool.
• n. An attempt.
• n. (fencing) A thrust or push; an attempt to stab or strike an adversary.
• n. (figuratively) A thrust; a sally of wit.
• n. A sexual advance.
• n. (sports) The act of moving the ball or puck from one player to another.
• n. (rail transport) A passing of two trains in the same direction on a single track, when one is put into…
• n. Permission or license to pass, or to go and come.
• n. A document granting permission to pass or to go and come; a passport; a ticket permitting free transit…
• n. (baseball) An intentional walk.
• n. The state of things; condition; predicament; impasse.
• n. (obsolete) Estimation; character.
• n. (obsolete, Chaucer) A part, a division. Compare passus.
• n. (cooking) The area in a restaurant kitchen where the finished dishes are passed from the chefs to the…
• n. An act of declining to play one's turn in a game, often by saying the word "pass".
• n. (computing) A run through a document as part of a translation, compilation or reformatting process.
• n. (computing, slang) A password (especially one for a restricted-access website).

peril

• n. A situation of serious and immediate danger.
• n. Something that causes, contains, or presents danger.
• n. (insurance) An event which causes a loss, or the risk of a specific such event.
• v. (transitive) To cause to be in danger; to imperil; to risk.

phenomenon

• n. A thing or being, event or process, perceptible through senses; or a fact or occurrence thereof.
• n. (extension) A knowable thing or event (eg by inference, especially in science).
• n. (metonymy) A kind or type of phenomenon (sense 1 or 2).
• n. Appearance; a perceptible aspect of something that is mutable.
• n. A fact or event considered very unusual, curious, or astonishing by those who witness it.
• n. A wonderful or very remarkable person or thing.
• n. (philosophy, chiefly Kantian idealism) An experienced object whose constitution reflects the order and…

possibility

• n. The quality of being possible.
• n. A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
• n. An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.

possibleness

• n. Quality of being possible.

potency

• n. Strength.
• n. Power.
• n. The ability or capacity to perform something.

potential

• n. Currently unrealized ability (with the most common adposition being to).
• n. (physics) The gravitational potential is the radial (irrotational, static) component of a gravitational…
• n. (physics) The work (energy) required to move a reference particle from a reference location to a specified…
• n. (grammar) A verbal construction or form stating something is possible or probable.
• adj. Existing in possibility, not in actuality.
• adj. (archaic) Being potent; endowed with energy adequate to a result; efficacious; influential.
• adj. (physics) A potential field is an irrotational (static) field.
• adj. (physics) A potential flow is an irrotational flow.
• adj. (grammar) Referring to a verbal construction of form stating something is possible or probable.

potentiality

• n. The quality of being, or having potential.
• n. An inherent capacity for growth or development.
• n. An aptitude amenable to development; capability.
• n. (philosophy) Indeterminism.
• n. (physics) Quantum indeterminacy.

probability

• n. the state of being probable; likelihood.
• n. an event that is likely to occur.
• n. the relative likelihood of an event happening.
• n. (mathematics) a number, between 0 and 1, expressing the precise likelihood of an event happening.

prospect

• n. The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
• n. A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
• n. A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
• n. Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
• n. The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
• n. The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
• n. A hope; a hopeful.
• n. (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a…
• n. (music) The façade of an organ.
• v. (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
• v. (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.

quantity

• n. A fundamental, generic term used when referring to the measurement (count, amount) of a scalar, vector,…
• n. An indefinite amount of something.
• n. A specific measured amount.
• n. A considerable measure or amount.
• n. (metrology) Property of a phenomenon, body, or substance, where the property has a magnitude that can…
• n. (mathematics) Indicates that the entire preceding expression is henceforth considered a single object.

risk

• n. A possible, usually negative, outcome, e.g., a danger.
• n. The likelihood of a negative outcome.
• n. (Formal use in business, engineering, etc.) The potential (conventionally negative) effect of an event,…
• v. (transitive) To incur risk (of something).
• v. (transitive) To incur risk of harming or jeopardizing.
• v. (transitive) To incur risk as a result of (doing something).

seek

• v. (transitive) To try to find, to look for, to search.
• v. (transitive) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
• v. (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
• v. (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

try

• v. To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
• v. (obsolete) To divide; to separate.
• v. To test, to work out.
• v. To experiment, to strive.
• v. (nautical) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
• v. To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
• v. (slang, chiefly African American Vernacular, used with another verb) To want.
• n. An attempt.
• n. An act of tasting or sampling.
• n. (rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
• n. (Britain, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
• n. (American football) a field goal or extra point.
• adj. (obsolete) Fine, excellent.

unplanned

• adj. unintentional; not intended.
• adj. spontaneous and not thought through in advance.
• adj. not having any structure or organization.