CONTINGENCES Synonyms

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

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

• property of a personal character that is portable but not used in business

• an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury

• anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause

• the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event)

• the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual

• 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 phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

• the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual

• having important effects or influence

• 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

• act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining

• a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage)

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

• a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation

• the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful

• a district that has been developed to serve some purpose

• a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess)

• processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible

• (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated

• a happening that is distinctive in a series of related events

• a brief section of a literary or dramatic work that forms part of a connected series

• a part of a broadcast serial

• film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie

• something that happens at a given place and time

• a special set of circumstances

• a phenomenon located at a single point in space-time; the fundamental observational entity in relativity theory

• a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

• a possible event or occurrence or result

• a stroke of luck

• a barb on a harpoon or arrow

• flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor

• either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean

• parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host

• an event that happens

• an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental

• the relative frequency of occurrence of something

• the striking of a light beam on a surface

• falling or striking of light rays on something

• (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence

• a single distinct event

• a public disturbance

• a severe or trying experience

• a primitive method of determining a person's guilt or innocence by subjecting the accused person to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under divine control; escape was usually taken as a sign of innocence

• something that results

• a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon

• a remote or indirect consequence of some action

• a movement back from an impact