luck
noun
1 luck
Your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you):
— The luck of the Irish.
synonyms: circumstances, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, portion.
Roget 734:
prosperity,
welfare,
well-being;
affluence
etc.
(wealth)
803;
success
etc.
731;
thrift,
roaring trade;
good fortune,
smiles of fortune;
blessings,
godsend.
luck;
good luck,
run of luck;
sunshine;
fair weather,
fair wind;
palmy days,
bright days,
halcyon days;
piping times,
tide,
flood,
high tide.
Saturnia regna [Lat.],
Saturnian age;
golden time,
golden age;
bed of roses,
fat city [Coll.];
fat of the land,
milk and honey,
loaves and fishes.
made man,
lucky dog,
enfant gate [Fr.],
spoiled child of fortune.
upstart,
parvenu,
skipjack†,
mushroom.
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Roget 621:
chance
etc.
156;
lot,
fate
etc.
(necessity)
601;
luck;
good luck
etc.
(good)
618;
mascot.
speculation,
venture,
stake,
game of chance;
mere shot,
random shot;
blind bargain,
leap in the dark;
pig in a poke
etc.
(uncertainty)
475;
fluke,
potluck;
faro bank;
flyer [Slang];
limit.
uncertainty;
uncertainty principle,
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
drawing lots;
sortilegy†,
sortition†;
sortes†,
sortes Virgilianae†;
rouge et noir [Fr.],
hazard,
ante,
chuck-a-luck,
crack-loo [U.S.],
craps,
faro,
roulette,
pitch and toss,
chuck,
farthing,
cup tossing,
heads or tails cross and pile,
poker-dice;
wager;
bet,
betting;
gambling;
the turf.
gaming house,
gambling house,
betting house;
bucket shop;
gambling joint;
totalizator,
totalizer;
hell;
betting ring;
dice,
dice box.
[person who takes chances]
gambler,
gamester;
man of the turf;
adventurer;
dicer†.
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Dutch: geluk, toedracht
2 luck
An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another:
— Bad luck caused his downfall.
synonyms: chance, fortune, hazard.
Roget 156:
chance,
indetermination,
accident,
fortune,
hazard,
hap,
haphazard,
chance medley,
random,
luck,
raccroc†,
casualty,
contingence,
adventure,
hit;
fate
etc.
(necessity)
601;
equal chance;
lottery;
tombola†;
toss up
etc.
621;
turn of the table,
turn of the cards;
hazard of the die,
chapter of accidents,
fickle finger of fate;
cast of the dice,
throw of the dice;
heads or tails,
flip of a coin,
wheel of Fortune;
sortes†,
sortes Virgilianae†.
probability,
possibility,
odds;
long odds,
run of luck;
accidentalness;
main chance,
odds on,
favorable odds.
contingency,
dependence
(uncertainty)
475;
situation
(circumstance)
8.
statistics,
theory of Probabilities,
theory of Chances;
bookmaking;
assurance;
speculation,
gaming
etc.
621.
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Dutch: risico, onheilsdreiging, dreiging, kans
3 luck
An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome:
— It was my good luck to be there.
— They say luck is a lady.
synonym: fortune.
Dutch: lot, bof, fortuin, geluk, mazzel, zwijn, zwijntje
Moby thesaurus: accident, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, blessing, break, bump, calculated risk, capriciousness, casualness, chance, chances, chanciness, changeableness, destiny, erraticism, erraticness, fate, felicity, fickleness, flier, fluke, flukiness, fortuitousness, fortuity, fortunateness, fortune, fortunes, gamble, good fortune, good luck, hap, happenstance, happy chance, happy fortune, hazard, heedless hap, hesitancy, hesitation, hit, how they fall, incalculability, incertitude, indecision, indecisiveness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination, indeterminism, irresolution, law of averages, light, lot, luckiness, meet, moira, occasion, opportunity, play, plunge, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, random sample, randomness, risk, run of luck, serendipity, smiles of fortune, speculation, statistical probability, stroke of luck, stumble, suspense, suspensefulness, the breaks, theory of probability, tumble, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, venture, whatever comes, whimsicality ... show more.
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