Another word for luck
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Noun
The quality shared by random, unintended, or unpredictable events or this quality regarded as the cause of such events
- A possible source of danger:
- A chance of being injured or harmed:
- Chance, or a chance occurrence
- An occurrence or happening, esp. an unfortunate one
- Chance; luck; lot
- Fortune; chance.
- Success, especially when at least partially resulting from luck:
- The entity or power believed by some to bring good or bad luck to people; luck; chance; fate
- The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; luck:
- The quality of being fortuitous
- The likelihood of something happening; possibility or probability:
- A force assumed to cause events that cannot be foreseen or controlled; luck:
- A favorable set of circumstances; an opportunity:
See also:Success attained as a result of chance
- The property of being lucky; good luck.
- The chance happening of fortunate or adverse events; luck:
- Success, especially when at least partially resulting from luck:
- A person's condition or standing in life determined by material possessions or financial wealth:
Idioms:See also:
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Another word for luck
Noun
Good fortune
- An easily won victory
- A gymnastic feat in which the body is bent forward or backward from an upright position, the hands are placed on the floor, and the legs are arced one after the other over the hands to finish in a standing position.
- Something that is easy and presents no difficulties, especially an easily won sports contest.
- An advantage or opportunity
- The opening shot in a game of pocket billiards, in which the cue ball must come into contact with at least one ball in the rack; often, a shot that scatters the racked balls
- An often sudden piece of luck, especially good luck:
- A significant event, especially a large or important social gathering:
- A favorable or appropriate time or juncture:
- A fact, event, or state of affairs that makes something else possible
- A good chance or occasion, as to advance oneself
- A chance for advancement, progress or profit.
- A combination of circumstances favorable for the purpose; fit time
- Something wanted or needed that comes or happens unexpectedly.
- Anything unexpected and needed or desired that comes at the opportune moment, as if sent by God
- Plural form of blessing
- (Archaic) Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.
- The emotion of being happy; joy.
- Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; "” used especially of language.
- The overall condition of an organism at a given time.
- A wish for someone's good health, often expressed as a toast.
- A wish for a person's health and happiness, as in drinking a toast
- An act of winning; victory, as in a contest
- A victory, especially in a competition.
- First place in a competition.
- Fate or destiny resulting from one's previous actions:
- (Hinduism & Buddhism) The totality of a person's actions and conduct during successive incarnations, regarded as causally influencing his or her destiny.
- (Informal) A distinctive aura, atmosphere, or feeling:
- Success in any contest or struggle involving the defeat of an opponent or the overcoming of obstacles
- Exultation or celebration at defeating an opponent or accomplishing something:
- A success in a struggle against difficulties or an obstacle:
- A success in a struggle against difficulties or an obstacle:
- The act or fact of being victorious; victory; success; achievement
- Exultation or rejoicing over victory or success:
- The sum remaining after all costs, direct and indirect, are deducted from the income of a business, the selling price, etc.
- Advantage; gain; benefit
- Financial gain from a transaction or from a period of investment or business activity, usually calculated as income in excess of costs or as the final value of an asset in excess of its initial value.
- Benefit or profit; gain:
- A beneficial factor or combination of factors:
- A relatively favorable position; superiority of means:
- A pointed part of an anchor, designed to catch in the ground
- (Games) An accidentally good or successful stroke in billiards or pool.
- (Informal) A result, esp. a successful one, brought about by accident; stroke of luck
- Goods and resources having value in terms of exchange or use:
- The state of having much money or property; affluence
- Any useful material thing capable of being bought, sold, or stocked for future disposition
- Prosperity; happiness:
- A mark, line, or ridge raised on the skin, as by a blow; welt; wale
- The welfare of the community; the general good:
- The condition of being prosperous.
- Prosperous condition; good fortune, wealth, success, etc.
- Desirable or beneficial fortune.
Chance
- An unfavorable outcome in life; doom or death:
- A final result or consequence; an outcome:
- The inevitable events predestined by this force:
- Any of various flatfishes chiefly of the genus Paralichthys, especially the summer flounder.
- (Games) An accidentally good or successful stroke in billiards or pool.
- (Informal) A result, esp. a successful one, brought about by accident; stroke of luck
Idioms:
crowd (or push) one's luck
down-on-one-s-luck
in luck
out-of-luck
worse luck
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