chances
Risks worth taking
Chances are possibilities or probabilities—the likelihood that something will happen: What are the chances of rain?
The plural often emphasizes multiple opportunities: You've had your chances.
To take chances is to accept risk.
Chances are introduces a probability: Chances are he's already left.
The singular chance covers the same ground but emphasizes a single opportunity or occurrence.
Likelihood expressed numerically
- likelihoodChance something will occur
- statisticsCollected numerical information
- probabilityQuantified chance of occurrence
- percentageProportion out of hundred
ratio · expectation · forecast · prediction · mathematical · Bayesian · p-value · confidence interval
Marked cubes for chance
- lotteryRandomized prize distribution
- rouletteSpinning wheel wager
- toss-upOutcome with equal chances
- drawCreate with pencil
spin · unpredictable · arbitrary · random · haphazard · chaos · entropy · aleatory
Expected future outcomes
advancement · career · growth · promotion · golden opportunity · once-in-a-lifetime · door · pathway
Wealth or destiny
- fatePredetermined course of events
- serendipityAccidental fortunate discovery
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- destinyPredetermined course of events
fluke · coincidence · providence · karma · windfall · blessing · accident · stroke of luck
Stake on uncertain outcome
- wagerStake on uncertainty
- stakesPosts or wagers
- bettingStaking money on outcomes
- hazardSource of potential harm
jeopardy · uncertainty · exposure · vulnerability · danger · peril · recklessness · leap of faith
odds
Likelihood expressed numerically
- likelihoodChance something will occur
- statisticsCollected numerical information
- probabilityQuantified chance of occurrence
percentage · ratio · expectation · forecast · prediction · mathematical · Bayesian · p-value · confidence interval · bell curve
dice
Marked cubes for chance
draw · spin · unpredictable · arbitrary · random · haphazard · chaos · entropy · aleatory · stochastic
prospects
Expected future outcomes
window · advancement · career · growth · promotion · golden opportunity · once-in-a-lifetime · door · pathway · possibility
fortune
Wealth or destiny
- fatePredetermined course of events
- serendipityAccidental fortunate discovery
- kismetPreordained future outcome
destiny · fluke · coincidence · providence · karma · windfall · blessing · accident · stroke of luck · fortuity
gamble
Stake on uncertain outcome
hazard · jeopardy · uncertainty · exposure · vulnerability · danger · peril · recklessness · leap of faith · long odds
- things that run outtime, money, gas, fuel, battery
- expectationsexpect, expectation, anticipate, expectancy, await
- What Could Happenoutcomes, scenarios, possibilities, probabilities, hypotheticals
- possibilitiespossibility, likelihood, probability, odds, potential
chancescertainties
Assured truths
certainty · guarantees · sure things · locks · foregone conclusions
chancesplans
Intended courses of action
designs · deliberates · calculates · intends · aims
chancesimpossibilities
Things that cannot exist
no chance · impossibility · hopelessness · lost causes · non-starters
- no chanceEmphatic refusal of possibility
- last chanceUltimate remaining opportunity
- second chanceRenewed opportunity after failure
- by chanceOccurring without design
- take a chanceAccept risk willingly
- not a chanceEmphatic refusal of possibility
chance, chanced, chances are, chancing, mischance, chance upon, chance on, happenchance