Synonyms for luck
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Chance — something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence. A favourable chance occurrence
chance, fortune, good fortune, good luck, accident, serendipity, venture, casualty, felicity rare, hap dated, adventure dated, fortuity rare, fortuitousness rare, hapchance formal rare
Definitions
- n. 1
Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence. A favourable chance occurrence.
Sometimes it takes a bit of luck to get success.
- n. 2
Something that happens to someone by chance, a chance occurrence.
The raffle is just a matter of luck.
Related words
- Word family
- luckless lucky
- Phrases
- good luck tough luck ill luck bad luck hard-luck luck into best of luck stroke of luck
- Is a kind of
- occurrence
Forms
- Plural
- lucks → chances, fortunes, accidents, serendipities…
Example sentences
- chance Many would jump at the chance to live in New York.
- fortune He exploited his position to build up his fortune.
By length
- 3 letters
- lot1, hap1
- 6 letters
- chance1, hazard2
- 7 letters
- portion2, welfare2, fortune2, venture2, destiny3
- 8 letters
- accident3, casualty4, felicity4, fortuity
- 9 letters
- adventure3, hapchance
- 11 letters
- serendipity5
- 14 letters
- fortuitousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (hazard2 = 2 syllables).