chance

chance
I
n
1. fortuity, serendipity, happenstance, mere chance, happy chance; luck, Lady Luck, fortune or Fortune, Lady or Dame Fortune, wheels of fortune or chance, heads or tails, roll, Inf. cast or toss or throw of the dice; accident, coincidence, contingency, contin-gence; vicissitudes, ups and downs, fickle finger of fate, fate, way things fall, Inf. the breaks, Inf. how the cookie crumbles, Inf. how the ball bounces.
2. causelessness, purposelessness, randomness; unaccountability, unaccountableness, indemonstrability, unconfirmability; uncertainty, incertitude; unpredictability, unpredictableness, unforeseeableness; changeableness, capriciousness, fickleness; predestination, kismet, God's will, stars, planets.
3. prospect, possibility, the realm of possibility, con-ceivability, conceivableness; probability
II
accidentally, unintentionally, undesignedly, without design, by accident, by mistake; inadvertently, involuntarily, unwittingly, unthinkingly, unconsciously; randomly, haphazardly, casually, incidentally, unpredictably, whichever way the wind blows; luckily, fortuitously, as it chanced, as luck would have it, by a piece of luck, by a fluke, by good fortune or a piece of good fortune.
v
7. occur, transpire, happen, hap, come, come about, come to pass, come off, Sl. come down, take place, betide; befall, fall, fall to one's lot, Archaic. bechance; result, come to, eventuate; turn up, crop up, Inf. show up, Inf. pop up.
8.Informal. risk, hazard, gamble; speculate, venture, Inf. plunge, Inf. go out on a limb; dare, jeopardize, tempt fortune, take or run the risk or hazard or chance; take a chance, try one's luck or fortune; leave or trust to chance, take a leap or shot in the dark.
9. chance on or upon
happen upon, come on or upon, come across, stumble on or upon, hit upon, find; encounter, meet, meet with, run across, run into, cross the path of, Inf. meet up with, Inf. come or run up against, Inf. bump into, Inf. run smack into.
adj
10. random, haphazard, casual, arbitrary, hit-or-miss; fortuitous, serendipitous, aleatory, unpredictable, Inf. fluky; unexpected, unanticipated, unforeseen, unlooked-for; accidental, unintentional, unintended, unpremeditated, undesigned, unplanned, uncalculated; indeliberate, inadvertent, involuntary; incidental, occasional, contingent, adventitious

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