Another word for circumstances
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Condition in life
- A recess in a wall, as for holding a statue or urn.
- A cranny, hollow, or crevice, as in rock.
- A situation or activity specially suited to a person's interests, abilities, or nature:
- The level of respect at which a person or thing is regarded by others; standing:
- Good reputation; honor:
- Great respect or importance:
- A large extent, amount, or number:
- Used adverbially to mean “to a great degree or extent” or “frequently”:
- A number of associated people or things:
- All the merchandise and equipment kept on hand and used in carrying on a business.
- The resources available to and habitually called on by a person in a given situation:
- That which has mass and occupies space; matter.
- A material of a particular kind or constitution.
- A drug, chemical, or other material (such as glue) that one is dependent on or uses habitually and that is often illegal or subject to government regulation:
- A three-dimensional surface, all points of which are equidistant from a fixed point.
- A spherical object or figure.
- A celestial body, such as a planet or star.
- The amount of money or its equivalent received during a period of time in exchange for labor or services, from the sale of goods or property, or as profit from financial investments.
- The act of coming in; entrance.
- Secure placement of the feet in standing or moving.
- A surface or its condition with respect to its suitability for walking or running, especially the condition of a racetrack.
- A secure place for the feet; a foothold.
- To direct with authority; give orders to.
- To have control or authority over; rule:
- To have at one's disposal:
- A place or location.
- The right or appropriate place:
- A strategic area occupied by members of a force:
- A town or city that is the official seat of government in a political entity, such as a state or nation.
- A city that is the center of a specific activity or industry:
- Wealth, especially in the form of financial or physical assets, used in the production or accumulation of more wealth.
- One of a series of steps in a process, course, or progression; a stage:
- A step in a direct hereditary line of descent or ascent:
- Relative social or official rank, dignity, or position.
- A set, collection, group, or configuration containing members regarded as having certain attributes or traits in common; a kind or category.
- A grade of mail:
- A quality of accommodation on public transport:
- A relative position in a society.
- An official position or grade:
- A relative position or degree of value in a graded group.
- A landed property, usually of considerable size.
- One's property, both real and personal, vested and contingent, especially as disposed of in a will.
- The nature and extent of an owner's rights with respect to land or other property.
- plural form of term
- An estimate of the amount of credit that can be extended to a company or person without undue risk.
- For individuals, the value of all assets minus any liabilities, such as a mortgage, a car loan, or credit card balances.
- For corporations, assets plus shareholders equity, minus liabilities.
- Something owned; a possession.
- A piece of real estate:
- Something tangible or intangible to which its owner has legal title:
- Status with respect to rank, reputation, or position in society or a profession:
- High reputation; esteem:
- Continuance in time; duration:
- Position relative to that of others; standing:
- High standing; prestige:
- The legal character or condition of a person or thing:
- plural form of affair
- plural form of resource
- The condition of being prosperous.
- plural form of asset
- (finance) Any property or object of value that one possesses, usually considered as applicable to the payment of one's debts.
- (law) Sufficient estate; property sufficient in the hands of an executor or heir to pay the debts or legacies of the testator or ancestor to satisfy claims against it.
- that by which something is done or obtained; agency
- resources or available wealth
- great wealth; riches
- A point of view; an attitude:
- Expectation for the future:
- A place where something can be viewed.
Attendant conditions
- Alternating periods of good and bad fortune or spirits.
- The intricate details of a situation, decision, or process.
- The windings of a road or path.
- (idiomatic)
- (idiomatic) true, truthful
- The business to be considered or done by a legislature or other body on a particular day.
- The characteristic or most significant aspect or activity:
- (idiomatic) A specific situation; a set of circumstances.
- plural form of event
- A proposition upon which an argument is based or from which a conclusion is drawn.
- One of the propositions in a deductive argument.
- Either the major or the minor proposition of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is drawn.
- An instance or occurrence of a particular kind or category:
- An occurrence of a disease or disorder:
- A set of circumstances or a state of affairs; a situation:
- A distinct stage of development:
- A temporary manner, attitude, or pattern of behavior:
- An aspect; a part:
- A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction.
- A wavering; unsteadiness.
- In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in an abscess), which is felt during palpation or percussion.
- To cause to be different:
- To give a completely different form or appearance to; transform:
- To give and receive reciprocally; interchange:
- plural form of vicissitude
- plural form of bearing
- The property or quality that distinguishes living organisms from dead organisms and inanimate matter, manifested in functions such as metabolism, growth, reproduction, and response to stimuli or adaptation to the environment originating from within the organism.
- The characteristic state or condition of a living organism.
- Living organisms considered as a group:
- plural form of prompting
- An environment or a setting.
- plural form of exigency
- plural form of necessity
- Of necessity; necessarily:
- A set of coordinate axes in terms of which position or movement may be specified or with reference to which physical laws may be mathematically stated.
- A set of ideas, as of philosophical or religious doctrine, in terms of which other ideas are interpreted or assigned meaning.
- The part of a text or statement that surrounds a particular word or passage and determines its meaning.
- The circumstances in which an event occurs; a setting.
- The ground or scenery located behind something.
- The part of a pictorial representation that appears to be in the distance and that provides relief for the principal objects in the foreground.
- The general scene or surface against which designs, patterns, or figures are represented or viewed.
- The position, direction, or way in which something, such as an automatic control, is set.
- The context and environment in which a situation is set; the background.
- The time, place, and circumstances in which a narrative, drama, or film takes place.
- (law) Basis or justification for something, as in "grounds for divorce."
- The collective land areas that compose a larger area, as in the castle grounds.
- A foundation upon which something rests.
- The chief constituent; the fundamental ingredient:
- The fundamental principle.
- An event or happening, or the time of an event or happening:
- A significant event, especially a large or important social gathering:
- A favorable or appropriate time or juncture:
- plural form of motive
- plural form of particular
- (typically plural): The details or specifics of something.
- plural form of fact
- The external objects, conditions, and circumstances that affect existence and development; the environment.
- The totality of the natural world, often excluding humans:
- A subset of the natural world; an ecosystem:
- The combination of external physical conditions that affect and influence the growth, development, behavior, and survival of organisms:
- The combination of circumstances at a given moment; a state of affairs.
- A critical, problematic, or striking set of circumstances:
- The way in which something is positioned vis-à-vis its surroundings:
Idioms:
under-no-circumstances
under the circumstances
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