hap
Old word: luck
Hap is an archaic or literary word for luck, chance, or fortune—what happens to befall someone.
It survives mainly in derivatives: happy (favored by hap), happen (to come about by hap), hapless (without luck), perhaps (by hap), and haphazard.
As a verb, to hap is to occur by chance: Whatever haps, I'll be there.
Unplanned circumstance
- fortuityAccidental lucky occurrence
- coincidenceUnplanned matching of events
- accidentUnintended harmful event
- flukeChance stroke of luck
contingency · randomness · unpredictability · uncertainty · arbitrariness · incidental · unexpected · unforeseen
Something that takes place
- incidentA distinct event
- occasionNotable event or moment
- episodeSerialized content unit
- circumstanceCondition affecting an event
affair · development · eventuality · transpire · befall · betide · adventure · misfortune
Chance affecting outcomes
- blessingPrayer seeking divine favor
- windfallUnanticipated lucky gain
- boonHelpful benefit received
- favorKind act or preference
auspice · charmed · streak · break · godsend · stroke · bonanza · jackpot
Predetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- providenceDivine protective care
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
foreordination · inevitability · lot · portion · decree · karma · fates · ordained
happenstance
Unplanned circumstance
- fortuityAccidental lucky occurrence
- coincidenceUnplanned matching of events
- accidentUnintended harmful event
fluke · contingency · randomness · unpredictability · uncertainty · arbitrariness · incidental · unexpected · unforeseen · inadvertent
occurrence
Something that takes place
circumstance · affair · development · eventuality · transpire · befall · betide · adventure · misfortune · chapter
luck
Chance affecting outcomes
favor · auspice · charmed · streak · break · godsend · stroke · bonanza · jackpot · serendipitous
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- providenceDivine protective care
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
predestination · foreordination · inevitability · lot · portion · decree · karma · fates · ordained · predetermination
hapdesign
Purposeful creative planning
intention · deliberation · purpose · plan · deliberate
- happy birthdayCelebratory natal salutation
- happy endingStory concludes well
- happily ever afterTraditional story's final promise
- what happenedPast occurrences inquiry
- be happyExperience positive emotional state
- what's happeningCasual status inquiry
happy, happen, unhappy, happiness, perhaps, happily, happening, mishap, haphazard