chancy as an adjective: - 1
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chancy
adjective
1 chancy
Of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk.
synonyms: chanceful, dicey, dodgy.
Roget 621:
fortuitous
etc.
156;
unintentional,
unintended;
accidental;
not meant;
undesigned,
purposed;
unpremeditated
etc.
612;
unforeseen,
uncontemplated,
never thought of.
random,
indiscriminate,
promiscuous;
undirected;
aimless,
driftless†,
designless†,
purposeless,
causeless;
without purpose.
possible
etc.
470.
unforeseeable,
unpredictable,
chancy,
risky,
speculative,
dicey.
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Polish: ryzykancki
2 chancy
Subject to accident or chance or change:
— A chancy appeal at best.
synonyms: flukey, fluky, iffy.
Moby thesaurus: accidental, adventitious, adventurous, agnostic, aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphous, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, capricious, casual, causeless, chance, changeable, chaotic, confused, contingent, destinal, dicey, disordered, doubting, equivocal, erratic, fatal, fatidic, fickle, fluctuant, fluky, foggy, fortuitous, full of risk, fuzzy, general, hairy, hazardous, hazy, hesitant, hesitating, hit-or-miss, iffy, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, incalculable, inchoate, incidental, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indemonstrable, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, irresolute, jeopardous, lax, loose, nonspecific, obscure, on thin ice, orderless, perilous, polysemous, precarious, random, riskful, risky, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, skeptical, speculative, stochastic, sweeping, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, tricky, unaccountable, uncaused, uncertain, unclear, unconfirmable, unconvinced, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undivinable, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unhealthy, unlooked-for, unpersuaded, unplain, unpredictable, unprovable, unsound, unspecified, unsure, unverifiable, vague, variable, veiled, venturesome, venturous, wavering, whimsical, wicked, wildcat ... show more.
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