ALEATORY Synonyms

• based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice

• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

• a risk involving danger

• a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible

• the possibility of future success

• occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

• be the case by chance

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• a gathering of persons representative of some larger group

• a temporary military unit

• possible but not certain to occur

• being determined by conditions or circumstances that follow

• uncertain because of uncontrollable circumstances

• having no cause or apparent cause

• occurring by happy chance

• without care; in a slapdash manner

• dependent upon or characterized by chance

• marked by great carelessness

• incapable of being anticipated

• not capable of being foretold

• unknown in advance

• not occurring at a regular rate or fixed intervals

• being or having a random variable