PREORDAINMENTS Antonyms

• an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury

• anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause

• a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances

• an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

• a risk involving danger

• a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible

• the possibility of future success

• occurring or appearing or singled out by chance

• be the case by chance

• take a risk in the hope of a favorable outcome

• come upon, as if by accident; meet with

• a stroke of luck

• a barb on a harpoon or arrow

• flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor

• either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean

• parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host

• an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental

• a creation spoken or written or composed extemporaneously (without prior preparation)

• an unplanned expedient

• a performance given extempore without planning or preparation

• the quality of being vague and poorly defined

• (thermodynamics) a thermodynamic quantity representing the amount of energy in a system that is no longer available for doing mechanical work

• the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan

• being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance

• the state of being unsure of something

• the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses

• the trait of being unpredictably irresolute

• lacking predictability