haps
Luck's random dealings
Haps is an archaic or dialectal word meaning luck, fortune, or chance occurrences—things that happen by accident rather than design.
It survives mainly in compounds: perhaps (by chance), mishap (bad luck), hapless (unfortunate), and happenstance.
On its own, haps appears occasionally in literary or regional speech: Whatever haps, we'll face it together.
Unintended harmful event
- coincidenceUnplanned matching of events
- serendipityAccidental fortunate discovery
- flukeChance stroke of luck
- fortuityAccidental lucky occurrence
occurrence · event · incident · surprise · unpredictable · spontaneity · incidental · contingency
Wealth or destiny
- blessingPrayer seeking divine favor
- windfallUnanticipated lucky gain
- boonHelpful benefit received
- breakInterrupt continuity
prosperity · auspice · favor · charmed · golden · opportunity · chance · smile
Predetermined course of events
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- providenceDivine protective care
- kismetPreordained future outcome
- doomUnavoidable grim fate
fortune · prophecy · omen · inevitability · lot · foreordination · determinism · fatalism
A notable occurrence
- incidentA distinct event
- episodeSerialized content unit
- occasionNotable event or moment
- circumstanceCondition affecting an event
development · transpiring · befalling · unfolding · arising · eventuating
accident
Unintended harmful event
- coincidenceUnplanned matching of events
- serendipityAccidental fortunate discovery
- flukeChance stroke of luck
fortuity · occurrence · event · incident · surprise · unpredictable · spontaneity · incidental · contingency · quirk
fortune
Wealth or destiny
break · prosperity · auspice · favor · charmed · golden · opportunity · chance · smile · streak
destiny
Predetermined course of events
- predestinationDivinely predetermined fate
- providenceDivine protective care
- kismetPreordained future outcome
doom · fortune · prophecy · omen · inevitability · lot · foreordination · determinism · fatalism · decree
event
A notable occurrence
circumstance · development · transpiring · befalling · unfolding · arising · eventuating
hapscertainties
Assured truths
inevitabilities · sureties · necessities · foregone conclusions · guarantees
hapsdesigns
Creates or conceives layouts
intentions · plans · deliberations · purposes · calculations
- happily ever afterTraditional story's final promise
- what happenedPast occurrences inquiry
- what's happeningCasual status inquiry
- about to happenSoon to occur
- not happeningWill never occur
- whatever happensAny eventual outcome
happen, unhappy, happiness, perhaps, happily, happening, mishap, unhappiness, happens