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chance
noun
- The quality shared by random, unintended, or unpredictable events or this quality regarded as the cause of such events: fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune, hap, hazard, luck. See
certain
- The likeliness of a given event occurring: likelihood, odds, possibility, probability, prospect (used in plural). See
likely
- An unexpected random event: accident, fluke, fortuity, hap, happenchance, happenstance, hazard. See
certain, surprise
- A favorable or advantageous combination of circumstances: break, occasion, opening, opportunity.
Informal: shot. See
luck
- A possibility of danger or harm: gamble, hazard, risk. See
safety
verb
- To take place by chance: befall, hap, happen. See
happen
- To run the risk of: adventure, hazard, risk, venture. See
safety
phrasal verb
chance on
or
upon
- To find or meet by chance: bump into, come across, come on or
upon
, find, happen on or
upon
, light on or
upon
, run across, run into, stumble on or
upon
, tumble on.
Archaic: alight on or
upon
.
Idiom:
meet up with. See
meet
adjective
- Occurring unexpectedly: accidental, casual, contingent, fluky, fortuitous, inadvertent, odd. See
surprise
- Having no particular pattern, purpose, organization, or structure: desultory, haphazard, hit-or-miss, indiscriminate, random, spot, unplanned. See
planned
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