Synonyms of the word

mischance

• n. Bad luck, misfortune.
• n. A mishap, an unlucky circumstance.
• v. (transitive) To undergo (a misfortune); to suffer (something unfortunate).

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.

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.

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.

misadventure

• n. An accidental mishap or misfortune.

misfortune

• n. (uncountable) bad luck.
• n. (countable) an undesirable event such as an accident.

mishap

• n. An accident, mistake, or problem.
• n. Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
• v. (archaic) To happen through misfortune; to mishappen.