CHANCES Synonyms

• your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you)

• a person's financial situation (good or bad)

• a possible event or occurrence or result

• the probability of a specified outcome

• the likelihood of a thing occurring rather than not occurring

• the ratio by which one better's wager is greater than that of another

• a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations

• belief about (or mental picture of) the future

• the act of looking out

• existing in possibility

• the inherent capacity for coming into being

• the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts

• expected to become or be; in prospect

• a possible event or occurrence or result

• the state of being contingent on something

• 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

• a possible event or occurrence or result

• an expectation

• something expected (as on the basis of a norm)

• belief about (or mental picture of) the future

• anticipating with confidence of fulfillment

• the feeling that something is about to happen

• the sum of the values of a random variable divided by the number of values

• a specific instance of feeling hopeful

• United States comedian (born in England) who appeared in films with Bing Crosby (1903-2003)

• the general feeling that some desire will be fulfilled

• grounds for feeling hopeful about the future

• someone (or something) on which expectations are centered

• one of the three Christian virtues

• expect and wish

• be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes

• intend with some possibility of fulfilment

• the probability of a specified outcome

• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

• a future prospect or potential

• capability of existing or happening or being true

• a tentative insight into the natural world; a concept that is not yet verified but that if true would explain certain facts or phenomena

• a possible alternative

• existing in possibility

• the inherent capacity for coming into being

• the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts

• expected to become or be; in prospect

• 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 quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event

• the possibility of future success

• belief about (or mental picture of) the future

• someone who is considered for something (for an office or prize or honor etc.)

• the visual percept of a region

• a prediction of the course of a disease

• search for something desirable

• explore for useful or valuable things or substances, such as minerals

• the act of firing a projectile

• a solid missile discharged from a firearm

• (sports) the act of swinging or striking at a ball with a club or racket or bat or cue or hand

• a chance to do something

• a person who shoots (usually with respect to their ability to shoot)

• a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film

• the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe

• a small drink of liquor

• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

• an estimate based on little or no information

• an informal photograph; usually made with a small hand-held camera

• sports equipment consisting of a heavy metal ball used in the shot put

• an explosive charge used in blasting

• a blow hard enough to cause injury

• an attempt to score in a game

• informal words for any attempt or effort

• the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination

• throwing the basketball toward the hoop

• varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles