| chancy | | |
| adj. | 1. chanceful, chancy, dicey, dodgy | of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk.; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog" |
| ~ dangerous, unsafe | involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm.; "a dangerous criminal"; "a dangerous bridge"; "unemployment reached dangerous proportions" |
| adj. | 2. chancy, flukey, fluky, iffy | subject to accident or chance or change.; "a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ uncertain | not certain to occur; not inevitable.; "everything is uncertain about the army"; "the issue is uncertain" |
| luck | | |
| n. (state) | 1. circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion | your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you).; "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" |
| ~ condition | a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing.; "the human condition" |
| ~ good fortune, good luck, luckiness | an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes. |
| ~ providence | a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures. |
| ~ bad luck, ill luck, tough luck, misfortune | an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes. |
| ~ failure | lack of success.; "he felt that his entire life had been a failure"; "that year there was a crop failure" |
| n. (phenomenon) | 2. chance, fortune, hazard, luck | an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another.; "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance" |
| ~ phenomenon | any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning. |
| ~ mischance, mishap, bad luck | an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate.; "if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all" |
| ~ even chance, toss-up, tossup | an unpredictable phenomenon.; "it's a toss-up whether he will win or lose" |
| n. (phenomenon) | 3. fortune, luck | an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome.; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand" |
| ~ phenomenon | any state or process known through the senses rather than by intuition or reasoning. |
| ~ fluke, good fortune, good luck | a stroke of luck. |
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