Thesaurus:luck

Thesaurus

luck

English

Noun

Sense: random occurrence; something that happens without assignable cause

Synonyms

• adventure (obsolete)
• accident    [⇒ thesaurus]
• casualty
• chance
• chance-medley (obsolete)
• fortune
• hap (archaic)
• hazard
• joss
• luck
• serendipity
• weird (archaic)

Hyponyms

• bad luck
• good luck

Hypernyms

• occurrence    [⇒ thesaurus]

Sense: a favorable chance occurrence

Synonyms

• luck
• good luck
• hap (archaic)
• fortune
• fortuitousness
• fortuity

Antonyms

• bad luck
• hard luck
• tough luck
• ill luck
• unluck
• unluckiness
• misluck
• mishap
• mischance
• accident    [⇒ thesaurus]
• misfortune
• unfortunateness
• adverseness
• adversity

See also

• Thesaurus:accident
• Thesaurus:lucky
• Thesaurus:unlucky

Further reading

• “156. chance” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “luck” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.