CONTINGENCY Synonyms

• 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

• an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury

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

• 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

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

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

• an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty

• a crucial stage or turning point in the course of something

• a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action

• a state in which martial law applies

• a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage

• 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

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

• an accidental happening

• come to pass

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

• 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

• an event that happens

• an instance of something occurring

• being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance

• the state of being unsure of something

• the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses

• the trait of being unpredictably irresolute

• lacking predictability

• a possible event or occurrence or result