Related Words:
- hightail
collapse - leave as fast as possible; "We hightailed it when we saw the police walking in" related words >
- begone,
- bound,
- canter,
- clear out,
- cut and run,
- cut out,
- decamp,
- flee,
- fly,
- fox-trot,
- gallop,
- get,
- git,
- hop,
- hop along,
- hotfoot,
- kite,
- leap,
- lope,
- make tracks,
- run,
- run along,
- run away,
- run away from,
- run off,
- scram,
- skedaddle,
- spring,
- sprint,
- step,
- step along,
- step lively,
- take off,
- take to flight,
- trip,
- trot,
- vamoose
- auspicious
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- auguring favorable circumstances and good luck; "an auspicious beginning for the campaign" related words >
- advantageous,
- appropriate,
- befitting,
- beneficial,
- benevolent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- blessed,
- blessed with luck,
- bon,
- bonny,
- braw,
- bright,
- bright with promise,
- bueno,
- capital,
- cheering,
- cogent,
- commendable,
- convenient,
- dexter,
- elegant,
- encouraging,
- estimable,
- excellent,
- expedient,
- fair,
- famous,
- favorable,
- favored,
- favoring,
- felicitous,
- fine,
- fit,
- fitting,
- fortunate,
- full of promise,
- golden,
- good,
- goodly,
- grand,
- halcyon,
- happy,
- healthy,
- helpful,
- hopeful,
- in luck,
- inspiring,
- inspiriting,
- kind,
- laudable,
- looking up,
- lucky,
- meet,
- nice,
- noble,
- of good omen,
- of happy portent,
- of promise,
- opportune,
- pleasant,
- pregnant of good,
- profitable,
- promising,
- propitious,
- prosperous,
- providential,
- reassuring,
- regal,
- ripe,
- roseate,
- rosy,
- royal,
- seasonable,
- skillful,
- sortable,
- sound,
- splendid,
- suitable,
- supportive,
- timely,
- useful,
- valid,
- very good,
- virtuous,
- well-timed,
- white
- abscond
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- run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along; "The thief made off with our silver"; "the accountant absconded with the cash from the safe" related words >
- abandon,
- absquatulate,
- beat a retreat,
- bolt,
- bow out,
- break,
- bunk,
- clear out,
- cut and run,
- decamp,
- depart,
- desert,
- disappear,
- elope,
- evacuate,
- flee,
- fly,
- fugitate,
- go,
- go AWOL,
- jump,
- jump bail,
- leave,
- levant,
- make off,
- quit,
- remove,
- retire,
- retreat,
- run,
- run away,
- run away from,
- run away with,
- run for it,
- run off,
- scape,
- show the heels,
- skedaddle,
- skip,
- skip out,
- slip the cable,
- take French leave,
- take flight,
- take to flight,
- take wing,
- turn tail,
- vacate,
- vanish,
- withdraw
- elapse
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- pass by; "three years elapsed" related words >
- hoodoo
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- something believed to bring bad luck
- a practitioner of voodoo
- (geology) a column of weathered and unusually shaped rock; "a tall sandstone hoodoo"
- bring back luck; be a source of misfortune related words >
- Jonah,
- alchemy,
- amulet,
- bad influence,
- bedevil,
- bewitch,
- bewitchery,
- bring bad luck,
- charm,
- curse,
- demonize,
- diabolize,
- divination,
- enchantment,
- evil eye,
- evil genius,
- evil star,
- fetish,
- fetishism,
- fylfot,
- gammadion,
- glamour,
- good-luck charm,
- gramarye,
- hex,
- ill wind,
- jinx,
- juju,
- jujuism,
- love charm,
- lucky bean,
- lucky piece,
- madstone,
- magic,
- malevolent influence,
- malocchio,
- mascot,
- mumbo jumbo,
- natural magic,
- necromancy,
- obeah,
- obsess,
- overlook,
- periapt,
- philter,
- phylactery,
- possess,
- rune,
- scarab,
- scarabaeus,
- scarabee,
- shamanism,
- sorcery,
- sortilege,
- spell,
- spellbinding,
- spellcasting,
- sudarium,
- swastika,
- sympathetic magic,
- talisman,
- thaumaturgia,
- thaumaturgics,
- thaumaturgism,
- thaumaturgy,
- theurgy,
- vampirism,
- veronica,
- voodoo,
- voodooism,
- wanga,
- whammy,
- white magic,
- witch,
- witchcraft,
- witchery,
- witchwork,
- wizardry
- blessed
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- highly favored or fortunate (as e.g. by divine grace); "our blessed land"; "the blessed assurance of a steady income"
- having good fortune bestowed or conferred upon; sometimes used as in combination; "blessed with a strong healthy body"; "a nation blessed with peace"; "a peace-blessed era"
- characterized by happiness and good fortune; "a blessed time"
- enjoying the bliss of heaven
- worthy of worship; "the Blessed Trinity" related words >
- Elysian,
- Olympian,
- absolute,
- auspicious,
- beaming,
- beatific,
- beatified,
- beatitude,
- blamed,
- blankety-blank,
- blasted,
- blessed with luck,
- blessedness,
- bliss,
- blissful,
- blooming,
- canonized,
- capering,
- celestial,
- cheerful,
- chirping,
- confounded,
- consecrated,
- cursed,
- cussed,
- dadburned,
- dancing,
- danged,
- darn,
- darned,
- dashed,
- dedicated,
- deuced,
- devoted,
- doggone,
- doggoned,
- downright,
- ethereal,
- extramundane,
- extraterrestrial,
- favored,
- flushed with joy,
- fortunate,
- from on high,
- gay,
- glad,
- glorified,
- glowing,
- goldanged,
- goldarned,
- goshdarn,
- hallowed,
- happy,
- heavenly,
- in glory,
- in luck,
- infernal,
- joyful,
- joyous,
- laughing,
- leaping,
- lucky,
- otherworldly,
- outright,
- paradisaic,
- paradisal,
- paradisiac,
- paradisic,
- perfect,
- positive,
- providential,
- purring,
- radiant,
- regular,
- ruddy,
- sacred,
- sainted,
- saintly,
- sanctified,
- set apart,
- singing,
- smiling,
- smirking,
- sparkling,
- starry-eyed,
- supernal,
- thrice happy,
- transcendental,
- transmundane,
- unearthly,
- unmitigated,
- unworldly
- badly off,
- bare-handed,
- beggarly,
- depressed,
- dire,
- distressed,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- down to bedrock,
- embarrassed,
- empty-handed,
- evil-starred,
- famished,
- fatal,
- feeling the pinch,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- half-starved,
- hapless,
- hard up,
- ill-equipped,
- ill-furnished,
- ill-provided,
- ill-starred,
- impecunious,
- impoverished,
- in Queer Street,
- in adverse circumstances,
- in narrow circumstances,
- in reduced circumstances,
- in straitened circumstances,
- inauspicious,
- land-poor,
- luckless,
- narrow,
- ominous,
- on short commons,
- on the edge,
- out of luck,
- out of pocket,
- pauperized,
- pinched,
- planet-struck,
- poor,
- poorly off,
- reduced,
- sad,
- short,
- short of cash,
- short of funds,
- short of luck,
- short of money,
- shorthanded,
- squeezed,
- star-crossed,
- starved,
- starveling,
- starving,
- straitened,
- strapped,
- unblessed,
- underfed,
- undermanned,
- undernourished,
- underprivileged,
- unfed,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unmoneyed,
- unprosperous,
- unprovided,
- unprovidential,
- unreplenished,
- unsupplied
- apocalyptic,
- bad,
- badly off,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmal,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- consuming,
- consumptive,
- dark,
- deadly,
- demolishing,
- demolitionary,
- depredatory,
- depressed,
- desolating,
- destroying,
- destructive,
- devastating,
- dire,
- direful,
- disastrous,
- donsie,
- dreary,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- foreboding,
- fortuneless,
- fratricidal,
- funest,
- gloomy,
- hapless,
- ill,
- ill off,
- ill-boding,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-starred,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inauspicious,
- internecine,
- lowering,
- luckless,
- menacing,
- nihilist,
- nihilistic,
- of evil portent,
- ominous,
- out of luck,
- planet-struck,
- portending,
- portentous,
- ravaging,
- ruining,
- ruinous,
- sad,
- self-destructive,
- short of luck,
- sinister,
- somber,
- star-crossed,
- subversionary,
- subversive,
- suicidal,
- threatening,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- unfavorable,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential,
- untoward,
- vandalic,
- vandalish,
- vandalistic,
- wasteful,
- wasting,
- withering
- alight upon,
- blunder upon,
- bump into,
- chance upon,
- come across,
- come among,
- come on,
- come up against,
- come upon,
- confront,
- discover serendipitously,
- encounter,
- fall across,
- fall among,
- fall foul of,
- fall in with,
- fall upon,
- happen upon,
- hit upon,
- light upon,
- meet,
- meet head-on,
- meet up with,
- meet with,
- pitch upon,
- run into,
- run smack into,
- run up against,
- run upon,
- stumble on,
- stumble upon,
- tumble on
- blunder upon,
- bump into,
- chance upon,
- come across,
- come among,
- come down on,
- come on,
- come up against,
- come upon,
- confront,
- descend upon,
- discover serendipitously,
- drop on,
- encounter,
- fall across,
- fall among,
- fall foul of,
- fall in with,
- fall on,
- fall upon,
- happen upon,
- hit upon,
- light upon,
- meet,
- meet head-on,
- meet up with,
- meet with,
- pitch upon,
- run across,
- run into,
- run smack into,
- run up against,
- run upon,
- settle on,
- strike upon,
- stumble on,
- stumble upon,
- tumble on
- probability
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- the quality of being probable; a probable event or the most probable event; "for a while mutiny seemed a probability"; "going by past experience there was a high probability that the visitors were lost"
- 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 probability that an unbiased coin will fall with the head up is 0.5" related words >
- a thing for,
- accidentality,
- actuarial calculation,
- actuarial prediction,
- adventitiousness,
- affinity,
- aftertime,
- afteryears,
- anticipation,
- apocalypse,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- bare possibility,
- bent,
- best bet,
- bias,
- break,
- by-and-by,
- cast,
- casualness,
- certainty,
- chance,
- chances,
- conatus,
- conceivability,
- conceivableness,
- conduciveness,
- confidence,
- contemplation,
- contingency,
- course ahead,
- crystal ball,
- delight,
- destiny,
- determinism,
- diathesis,
- disposition,
- distant future,
- eagerness,
- even chance,
- eventuality,
- expectancy,
- expectation,
- fate,
- favorable prospect,
- feeling for,
- flukiness,
- foreboding,
- forecast,
- forecasting,
- foreshowing,
- foresight,
- foretelling,
- fortuitousness,
- fortuity,
- fortune,
- forward look,
- future,
- future tense,
- futurism,
- futurity,
- gamble,
- good chance,
- good fortune,
- good luck,
- good opportunity,
- good possibility,
- guesswork,
- hap,
- happenstance,
- happy chance,
- heedless hap,
- hereafter,
- hope,
- how they fall,
- immediate future,
- immediate prospect,
- imminence,
- improbability,
- inclination,
- indeterminacy,
- indeterminateness,
- law of averages,
- leaning,
- liability,
- liableness,
- likelihood,
- likeliness,
- liking,
- lot,
- luck,
- main chance,
- moira,
- near future,
- obligation,
- odds,
- odds-on,
- odds-on chance,
- off chance,
- offing,
- omen,
- opportunity,
- outlook,
- outside chance,
- outside hope,
- penchant,
- possibility,
- possibleness,
- posteriority,
- potential,
- potentiality,
- prediction,
- predilection,
- predisposition,
- prefiguration,
- prefigurement,
- prefiguring,
- prejudice,
- presage,
- presaging,
- presentiment,
- preshowing,
- presignifying,
- presumption,
- principle of indeterminacy,
- problematicness,
- proclivity,
- prognosis,
- prognostication,
- project,
- promise,
- proneness,
- propensity,
- prophecy,
- prophesying,
- prospect,
- prospectus,
- random sample,
- readiness,
- reliance,
- remote possibility,
- risk,
- run of luck,
- sensitivity to,
- serendipity,
- small hope,
- soft spot,
- soothsay,
- speculation,
- sporting chance,
- statistical prediction,
- statistical probability,
- sure bet,
- sure thing,
- susceptibility,
- tendency,
- the attainable,
- the breaks,
- the feasible,
- the future,
- the morrow,
- the possible,
- the sweet by-and-by,
- theory of probability,
- thinkability,
- thinkableness,
- thought,
- time ahead,
- time just ahead,
- time to come,
- tomorrow,
- tropism,
- turn,
- twist,
- unastonishment,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- vaticination,
- virtuality,
- warp,
- weakness,
- well-grounded hope,
- what is possible,
- what may be,
- what might be,
- whatever comes,
- willingness
- phylactery
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- (Judaism) either of two small leather cases containing texts from the Hebrew Scriptures (known collectively as tefillin); traditionally worn (on the forehead and the left arm) by Jewish men during morning prayer related words >
- Agnus Dei,
- Holy Grail,
- Host,
- Pieta,
- Sanctus bell,
- Sangraal,
- amulet,
- ark,
- asperger,
- asperges,
- aspergillum,
- bambino,
- beadroll,
- beads,
- candle,
- censer,
- chaplet,
- charm,
- ciborium,
- cross,
- crucifix,
- cruet,
- eucharistial,
- fetish,
- fylfot,
- gammadion,
- good-luck charm,
- holy cross,
- holy water,
- holy-water sprinkler,
- hoodoo,
- icon,
- incensory,
- juju,
- love charm,
- luck,
- lucky bean,
- lucky piece,
- madstone,
- mascot,
- matzo,
- menorah,
- mezuzah,
- mikvah,
- monstrance,
- mumbo jumbo,
- obeah,
- osculatory,
- ostensorium,
- paschal candle,
- pax,
- periapt,
- philter,
- phylacteries,
- prayer shawl,
- prayer wheel,
- pyx,
- relics,
- rood,
- rosary,
- sacramental,
- sacred relics,
- sacring bell,
- scarab,
- scarabaeus,
- scarabee,
- shofar,
- sudarium,
- sukkah,
- swastika,
- tabernacle,
- talisman,
- tallith,
- thurible,
- urceole,
- veronica,
- vigil light,
- voodoo,
- votive candle,
- whammy
- whammy
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- a serious or devastating setback related words >
- Jonah,
- amulet,
- anathema,
- bad blood,
- bad influence,
- bad temper,
- bad will,
- ban,
- bedroom eyes,
- blasphemy,
- blighting glance,
- bring bad luck,
- cantrip,
- charm,
- come-hither look,
- commination,
- curse,
- damnation,
- denunciation,
- enchantment,
- evil disposition,
- evil eye,
- evil genius,
- evil star,
- excommunication,
- execration,
- exorcism,
- fetish,
- fulmination,
- fylfot,
- gammadion,
- gape,
- gaze,
- glad eye,
- glamour,
- glare,
- glower,
- glowering look,
- goggle,
- good-luck charm,
- hex,
- hoodoo,
- ill nature,
- ill will,
- ill wind,
- ill-disposedness,
- imprecation,
- jinx,
- juju,
- love charm,
- lucky bean,
- lucky piece,
- madstone,
- magic spell,
- malevolence,
- malevolent influence,
- malison,
- malocchio,
- mascot,
- mumbo jumbo,
- obeah,
- ogle,
- penetrating look,
- periapt,
- philter,
- phylactery,
- proscription,
- scarab,
- scarabaeus,
- scarabee,
- spell,
- stare,
- sudarium,
- swastika,
- talisman,
- thundering,
- veronica,
- voodoo,
- wanga,
- weird
- run off
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- decide (a contest or competition) by a runoff
- leave suddenly and as if in a hurry; "The listeners bolted when he discussed his strange ideas"; "When she started to tell silly stories, I ran out" related words >
- abscond,
- absquatulate,
- beat a retreat,
- bolt,
- bring out,
- clear out,
- cut and run,
- cut out,
- decamp,
- depart,
- desert,
- elope,
- engrave,
- flee,
- fly,
- fugitate,
- get out,
- go AWOL,
- hectograph,
- hightail,
- impress,
- imprint,
- issue,
- jump,
- jump bail,
- levant,
- make off,
- make tracks,
- mimeograph,
- multigraph,
- overprint,
- print,
- proof,
- prove,
- publish,
- pull,
- pull a proof,
- put out,
- put to bed,
- put to press,
- reissue,
- reprint,
- run,
- run along,
- run away,
- run away from,
- run away with,
- run for it,
- show the heels,
- skedaddle,
- skip,
- skip out,
- slip the cable,
- stamp,
- strike,
- take French leave,
- take flight,
- take to flight,
- take wing,
- turn tail
- unlucky
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- having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date" related words >
- apocalyptic,
- bad,
- badly off,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- calamitous,
- cataclysmic,
- catastrophic,
- dark,
- depressed,
- dire,
- direful,
- disastrous,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- dreary,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- foreboding,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- gloomy,
- hapless,
- ill,
- ill off,
- ill-boding,
- ill-considered,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-seasoned,
- ill-starred,
- ill-timed,
- improper,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inappropriate,
- inauspicious,
- inconvenient,
- inexpedient,
- infelicitous,
- inopportune,
- intempestive,
- intrusive,
- irrelevant,
- late,
- lowering,
- luckless,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- menacing,
- mistimed,
- of evil portent,
- off base,
- ominous,
- out of line,
- out of luck,
- out of phase,
- out of time,
- planet-struck,
- portending,
- portentous,
- premature,
- sad,
- short of luck,
- sinister,
- somber,
- star-crossed,
- threatening,
- too late,
- too soon,
- unbefitting,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- unfavorable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unfortunate,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential,
- unready,
- unripe,
- unseasonable,
- unsuitable,
- untimely,
- untoward,
- wrong
- alight upon,
- blunder upon,
- bring to bay,
- bump into,
- chance upon,
- close with,
- come across,
- come among,
- come on,
- come upon,
- confront,
- discover serendipitously,
- encounter,
- fall across,
- fall among,
- fall foul of,
- fall in with,
- fall upon,
- fight hand-to-hand,
- happen upon,
- hit upon,
- light upon,
- meet,
- meet head-on,
- meet up with,
- meet with,
- pitch upon,
- run across,
- run into,
- run smack into,
- run up against,
- run upon,
- stumble on,
- stumble upon,
- tumble on
- alight upon,
- arrive at,
- arrive upon,
- blunder upon,
- bump into,
- chance upon,
- come across,
- come among,
- come at,
- come down on,
- come on,
- come up against,
- come upon,
- confront,
- descend upon,
- discover serendipitously,
- drop on,
- encounter,
- fall across,
- fall among,
- fall foul of,
- fall in with,
- fall on,
- fall upon,
- get at,
- happen upon,
- hit upon,
- meet,
- meet head-on,
- meet up with,
- meet with,
- pitch upon,
- reach,
- run across,
- run into,
- run smack into,
- run up against,
- run upon,
- settle on,
- strike upon,
- stumble on,
- stumble upon,
- tumble on
- abscond,
- absquatulate,
- beat a retreat,
- bolt,
- clear out,
- come about,
- cut and run,
- decamp,
- depart,
- desert,
- elope,
- fetch about,
- flee,
- fly,
- fugitate,
- go AWOL,
- go about,
- heel,
- jump,
- jump bail,
- levant,
- make off,
- pivot,
- pivot about,
- put about,
- round,
- run,
- run away,
- run away from,
- run away with,
- run for it,
- run off,
- show the heels,
- skedaddle,
- skip,
- skip out,
- slip the cable,
- spin,
- swing,
- swing round,
- swivel,
- take French leave,
- take flight,
- take to flight,
- take wing,
- turn,
- turn about,
- turn around,
- turn round,
- veer,
- veer around,
- wheel,
- wheel about,
- whirl
- alight upon,
- appear unexpectedly,
- arrive at,
- arrive upon,
- be unexpected,
- blunder upon,
- bob up,
- bump into,
- chance upon,
- come across,
- come among,
- come at,
- come on,
- come unawares,
- come up against,
- confront,
- creep up on,
- discover serendipitously,
- encounter,
- fall across,
- fall among,
- fall foul of,
- fall in with,
- fall upon,
- flash upon one,
- get at,
- happen upon,
- hit upon,
- light upon,
- meet,
- meet head-on,
- meet up with,
- meet with,
- pitch upon,
- pop up,
- pounce upon,
- reach,
- run across,
- run into,
- run smack into,
- run up against,
- run upon,
- strike upon,
- stumble on,
- stumble upon,
- tumble on,
- turn up
- destiny
collapse
- an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future
- the ultimate agency that predetermines the course of events (often personified as a woman); "we are helpless in the face of Destiny" related words >
- Friday,
- Friday the thirteenth,
- Heaven,
- Paradise,
- Z,
- a better place,
- accidentality,
- actuarial calculation,
- adventitiousness,
- afterlife,
- afterworld,
- allotment,
- allowance,
- apodosis,
- appointed lot,
- astral influences,
- astrology,
- big end,
- bigger half,
- bit,
- bite,
- book of fate,
- break,
- budget,
- casualness,
- catastrophe,
- ceasing,
- cessation,
- chance,
- chunk,
- circumstance,
- coda,
- commission,
- conclusion,
- constellation,
- consummation,
- contingent,
- crack of doom,
- culmination,
- cup,
- curtain,
- curtains,
- cut,
- deal,
- death,
- decease,
- denouement,
- design,
- destination,
- dies funestis,
- dividend,
- dole,
- doom,
- effect,
- end,
- end point,
- ending,
- envoi,
- epilogue,
- equal share,
- eschatology,
- eternal home,
- expiration,
- fatality,
- fate,
- final solution,
- final twitch,
- final words,
- finale,
- finality,
- finis,
- finish,
- flukiness,
- foredoom,
- fortuitousness,
- fortuity,
- fortune,
- future,
- future state,
- gamble,
- goal,
- good fortune,
- good luck,
- half,
- halver,
- hap,
- happenstance,
- happy chance,
- heedless hap,
- helping,
- home,
- how they fall,
- ides of March,
- indeterminacy,
- indeterminateness,
- inevitability,
- intent,
- intention,
- interest,
- izzard,
- karma,
- kismet,
- last,
- last breath,
- last gasp,
- last things,
- last trumpet,
- last words,
- latter end,
- law of averages,
- life after death,
- life to come,
- lot,
- luck,
- measure,
- meed,
- mess,
- modicum,
- moiety,
- moira,
- next world,
- objective,
- omega,
- opportunity,
- otherworld,
- part,
- payoff,
- percentage,
- period,
- peroration,
- piece,
- planets,
- portion,
- postexistence,
- principle of indeterminacy,
- probability,
- problematicness,
- proportion,
- quantum,
- quietus,
- quota,
- rake-off,
- random sample,
- ration,
- resolution,
- resting place,
- risk,
- run of luck,
- segment,
- serendipity,
- share,
- slice,
- small share,
- stake,
- stars,
- statistical probability,
- stock,
- stoppage,
- stopping place,
- swan song,
- term,
- terminal,
- termination,
- terminus,
- the beyond,
- the breaks,
- the good hereafter,
- the grave,
- the great beyond,
- the great hereafter,
- the hereafter,
- the unknown,
- theory of probability,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- unlucky day,
- weird,
- what bodes,
- what is fated,
- whatever comes,
- wheel of fortune,
- will of Heaven,
- windup,
- world to come
- decamp
collapse
- leave suddenly; "She persuaded him to decamp"; "skip town"
- leave a camp; "The hikers decamped before dawn" related words >
- abscond,
- absquatulate,
- avoid,
- beat a retreat,
- begone,
- bolt,
- break,
- break camp,
- clear out,
- cut and run,
- depart,
- desert,
- dog it,
- elope,
- elude,
- escape,
- evade,
- exit,
- flee,
- fly,
- fugitate,
- go,
- go AWOL,
- hightail,
- jump,
- jump bail,
- kite,
- lam,
- leave,
- levant,
- make off,
- powder,
- pull up stakes,
- quit,
- retire,
- run,
- run away,
- run away from,
- run away with,
- run for it,
- run off,
- scape,
- scram,
- show the heels,
- shun,
- skedaddle,
- skip,
- skip out,
- slip the cable,
- split,
- strike camp,
- take French leave,
- take a powder,
- take flight,
- take off,
- take to flight,
- take wing,
- turn tail,
- vamoose,
- withdraw
- unfortunately
collapse
- by bad luck; "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay" related words >
- by ill hap,
- by ill luck,
- impolitically,
- impoliticly,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inadvisably,
- inappropriately,
- inaptly,
- inauspiciously,
- incongruously,
- inconveniently,
- ineptly,
- inexpediently,
- infelicitously,
- inopportunely,
- sadly,
- undesirably,
- unfavorably,
- unfittingly,
- unhappily,
- unluckily,
- unpromisingly,
- unpropitiously,
- unprovidentially,
- unseasonably,
- unsuitably
- advance,
- continue,
- deluge,
- dip,
- drift along,
- drown,
- duck,
- dunk,
- elapse,
- endure,
- expire,
- flit,
- float,
- flood,
- flow,
- fly,
- glide,
- go by,
- go on,
- inundate,
- jog on,
- lapse,
- last,
- march on,
- pass,
- pass by,
- pour on,
- press on,
- proceed,
- rain,
- roll on,
- rub on,
- run,
- run its course,
- run on,
- run out,
- slide,
- slip,
- sluice,
- submerge,
- swamp,
- whelm
- inauspicious
collapse
- not auspicious; boding ill related words >
- apocalyptic,
- bad,
- badly off,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- criminal,
- dark,
- depressed,
- dire,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- dreary,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- foreboding,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- gloomy,
- hapless,
- ill,
- ill off,
- ill-boding,
- ill-considered,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-seasoned,
- ill-starred,
- ill-timed,
- improper,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inaccurate,
- inappropriate,
- inconvenient,
- inexpedient,
- infelicitous,
- inferior,
- inopportune,
- intempestive,
- intrusive,
- invalid,
- irrelevant,
- late,
- lowering,
- luckless,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- malevolent,
- menacing,
- mistimed,
- of evil portent,
- off base,
- ominous,
- out of line,
- out of luck,
- out of phase,
- out of time,
- peccant,
- planet-struck,
- portending,
- portentous,
- premature,
- sad,
- short of luck,
- sinful,
- sinister,
- somber,
- star-crossed,
- threatening,
- too late,
- too soon,
- unbefitting,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- unfavorable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unfortunate,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unhealthy,
- unkind,
- unlucky,
- unpleasant,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential,
- unready,
- unripe,
- unseasonable,
- unskillful,
- unsuitable,
- untimely,
- untoward,
- vicious,
- wicked,
- wrong
- fortune
collapse
- a large amount of wealth or prosperity
- your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion" related words >
- Clio,
- Friday,
- Friday the thirteenth,
- Muse of history,
- accidentality,
- actuarial calculation,
- adventitiousness,
- adventures,
- affluence,
- annals,
- appointed lot,
- assets,
- astral influences,
- astrology,
- autobiography,
- beggared,
- biographical sketch,
- biography,
- blessing,
- bomb,
- boodle,
- book of fate,
- bottomless purse,
- break,
- bulging purse,
- bundle,
- calculated risk,
- case history,
- casualness,
- chance,
- chronicle,
- chronicles,
- chronology,
- circumstances,
- confessions,
- constellation,
- cup,
- curriculum vitae,
- destination,
- destiny,
- destitute,
- diary,
- dies funestis,
- doom,
- easy circumstances,
- embarras de richesses,
- end,
- estate,
- expectations,
- experiences,
- fatality,
- fate,
- felicity,
- flier,
- flukiness,
- foredoom,
- fortuitousness,
- fortuity,
- fortunateness,
- fortuneless,
- fortunes,
- future,
- gamble,
- gold,
- good fortune,
- good luck,
- hagiography,
- hagiology,
- handsome fortune,
- hap,
- happenstance,
- happy chance,
- happy fortune,
- hazard,
- heedless hap,
- high income,
- high tax bracket,
- historiography,
- history,
- holdings,
- how they fall,
- ides of March,
- impecunious,
- impoverished,
- independence,
- indeterminacy,
- indeterminateness,
- indigent,
- inevitability,
- journal,
- karma,
- kismet,
- law of averages,
- legend,
- life,
- life and letters,
- life story,
- lot,
- luck,
- luckiness,
- lucre,
- luxuriousness,
- mammon,
- martyrology,
- material wealth,
- means,
- memoir,
- memoirs,
- memorabilia,
- memorial,
- memorials,
- mint,
- moira,
- money,
- money to burn,
- moneybags,
- necrology,
- needy,
- obituary,
- opportunity,
- opulence,
- opulency,
- packet,
- pelf,
- penurious,
- photobiography,
- pile,
- planets,
- play,
- plunge,
- portion,
- position,
- possessions,
- pot,
- poverty-stricken,
- pretty penny,
- principle of indeterminacy,
- probability,
- problematicness,
- profile,
- property,
- prosperity,
- prosperousness,
- random sample,
- record,
- resources,
- resume,
- riches,
- richness,
- risk,
- roll,
- run of luck,
- serendipity,
- six-figure income,
- smiles of fortune,
- speculation,
- stars,
- statistical probability,
- story,
- substance,
- the breaks,
- theory of history,
- theory of probability,
- tidy sum,
- treasure,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- unlucky day,
- unprosperous,
- upper bracket,
- venture,
- wad,
- wealth,
- wealthiness,
- weird,
- whatever comes,
- wheel of fortune,
- will of Heaven,
- worth
- underprivileged
collapse
- lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society related words >
- badly off,
- beggared,
- beggarly,
- bereaved,
- bereft,
- chronic poor,
- chronic poverty area,
- common,
- demeaning,
- depressed,
- depressed class,
- depressed population,
- deprived,
- dire,
- disadvantaged,
- donsie,
- doomful,
- evil-starred,
- fatal,
- fleeced,
- fortuneless,
- funest,
- ghetto-dwellers,
- ghettoized,
- handicapped,
- hapless,
- humble,
- ill off,
- ill-fated,
- ill-starred,
- impoverished,
- in adverse circumstances,
- in need,
- in rags,
- in the shade,
- in want,
- inauspicious,
- indigent,
- inferior,
- infra dig,
- junior,
- less,
- lesser,
- low,
- lower,
- lowly,
- luckless,
- mendicant,
- minor,
- modest,
- necessitous,
- needy,
- ominous,
- on relief,
- ordinary,
- out at elbows,
- out of luck,
- outcasts,
- pauperized,
- planet-struck,
- poor,
- poverty subculture,
- poverty-stricken,
- sad,
- second rank,
- second string,
- secondary,
- servile,
- short of luck,
- slum-dwellers,
- star-crossed,
- starveling,
- stripped,
- sub,
- subaltern,
- subject,
- subordinate,
- subservient,
- the disadvantaged,
- the dispossessed,
- the distressed,
- the down-and-out,
- the forgotten man,
- the have-nots,
- the needy,
- the other America,
- the poor,
- the powerless,
- the underprivileged,
- the urban poor,
- third rank,
- third string,
- unblessed,
- underdeveloped nation,
- unfortunate,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential,
- vulgar,
- welfare rolls
- hazard
collapse
- an obstacle on a golf course
- a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune; "drinking alcohol is a health hazard" related words >
- accident,
- adventure,
- ante,
- ante up,
- assume,
- attempt,
- back,
- bechance,
- befall,
- bet,
- bet on,
- betide,
- bingo,
- block,
- blockade,
- book,
- bottleneck,
- brave,
- breakers ahead,
- calculated risk,
- call,
- card games,
- cardhouse,
- casualty,
- catch,
- cause for alarm,
- chance,
- chance hit,
- chance it,
- chuck and toss,
- chuck farthing,
- chuck-a-luck,
- chunk,
- come,
- come along,
- compromise,
- contingency,
- contingent,
- cordon,
- court destruction,
- cover,
- crack-loo,
- crap game,
- crap shooting,
- craps,
- crisis,
- curtain,
- danger,
- dangerous ground,
- dare,
- defy danger,
- desultoriness,
- determent,
- deterrent,
- difficulty,
- drawback,
- emergency,
- encounter danger,
- endanger,
- endangerment,
- expose,
- face up to,
- fade,
- fan-tan,
- flier,
- fluke,
- forget the odds,
- fortuity,
- fortune,
- freak accident,
- gamble,
- gamble on,
- gamble with,
- gaping chasm,
- gathering clouds,
- handbook,
- hang-up,
- hap,
- happen,
- happen along,
- happen by chance,
- happening,
- happenstance,
- hitch,
- horse racing,
- house of cards,
- hurdle,
- imperil,
- imperilment,
- incur danger,
- infirmity,
- insecurity,
- insolidity,
- instability,
- insubstantiality,
- jeopard,
- jeopardize,
- jeopardy,
- joker,
- keno,
- lay,
- lay a wager,
- lay down,
- lay open,
- long odds,
- long shot,
- lotto,
- luck,
- lucky shot,
- make a bet,
- make bold,
- make free,
- meet a bet,
- menace,
- objection,
- obstacle,
- obstruction,
- obstructive,
- one small difficulty,
- parlay,
- pass,
- peril,
- perilousness,
- pinball,
- pinch,
- pitch and toss,
- play,
- play against,
- play with fire,
- plight,
- plunge,
- policy,
- pop up,
- precariousness,
- predicament,
- presume,
- pretend,
- punt,
- put in danger,
- put in jeopardy,
- quicksand,
- rely on fortune,
- risk,
- riskiness,
- rocks ahead,
- rouge et noir,
- roulette,
- rub,
- run a chance,
- run the chance,
- run the risk,
- see,
- set at hazard,
- shakiness,
- shell game,
- shiftiness,
- shiftingness,
- shot,
- slipperiness,
- snag,
- speculation,
- speculativeness,
- stake,
- stand pat,
- storm clouds,
- strait,
- stumbling block,
- stumbling stone,
- sweepstake,
- sweepstakes,
- take a chance,
- take a flier,
- take chances,
- take the liberty,
- tempt Providence,
- tempt fortune,
- the numbers,
- the numbers game,
- thin ice,
- threat,
- threaten,
- ticklishness,
- treacherousness,
- treachery,
- trente-et-quarante,
- trust to chance,
- try the chance,
- turn up,
- unauthenticity,
- unauthoritativeness,
- uncertainty,
- undependability,
- unfaithworthiness,
- unreliability,
- unsolidity,
- unsoundness,
- unsteadfastness,
- unsteadiness,
- unsubstantiality,
- unsureness,
- untrustworthiness,
- venture,
- wager
- scarab
collapse
- scarabaeid beetle considered divine by ancient Egyptians related words >
- amulet,
- charm,
- fetish,
- fylfot,
- gammadion,
- good-luck charm,
- hoodoo,
- juju,
- love charm,
- lucky bean,
- madstone,
- mascot,
- mumbo jumbo,
- obeah,
- periapt,
- philter,
- phylactery,
- scarab,
- scarabaeus,
- scarabee,
- sudarium,
- swastika,
- talisman,
- veronica,
- voodoo,
- whammy
- capriciousness,
- chance,
- chanciness,
- changeableness,
- erraticism,
- erraticness,
- fickleness,
- hesitancy,
- hesitation,
- incalculability,
- indecision,
- indecisiveness,
- indemonstrability,
- indeterminacy,
- indetermination,
- indeterminism,
- irresolution,
- luck,
- randomness,
- suspense,
- suspensefulness,
- unaccountability,
- uncertainness,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- undecidedness,
- undeterminedness,
- unforeseeableness,
- unpredictability,
- unprovability,
- unsureness,
- unverifiability,
- vacillation,
- whimsicality
- unfortunate
collapse
- a person who suffers misfortune
- unsuitable or regrettable; "an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech"
- not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" related words >
- abortive,
- afflictive,
- apocalyptic,
- awful,
- awkward,
- bad,
- badly off,
- baleful,
- baneful,
- black,
- bodeful,
- boding,
- bootless,
- calamitous,
- catastrophic,
- cursed,
- dark,
- deplorable,
- depressed,
- dire,
- disastrous,
- dismal,
- distressing,
- disturbing,
- donsie,
- doomed,
- doomful,
- dreary,
- evil,
- evil-starred,
- failed,
- failing,
- fatal,
- fateful,
- foreboding,
- forlorn,
- fortuneless,
- fruitless,
- funest,
- futile,
- gloomy,
- graceless,
- grievous,
- hapless,
- hard-luck guy,
- hardcase,
- heartbreaking,
- ill,
- ill off,
- ill-advised,
- ill-boding,
- ill-chosen,
- ill-considered,
- ill-fated,
- ill-omened,
- ill-seasoned,
- ill-starred,
- ill-suited,
- ill-timed,
- impolitic,
- improper,
- in adverse circumstances,
- inadvisable,
- inappropriate,
- inapt,
- inauspicious,
- incongruous,
- inconvenient,
- ineffective,
- ineffectual,
- inefficacious,
- inept,
- inexpedient,
- infelicitous,
- inopportune,
- intempestive,
- intrusive,
- irrelevant,
- lame,
- lamentable,
- late,
- loser,
- lowering,
- luckless,
- mal a propos,
- malapropos,
- malefic,
- manque,
- menacing,
- miscarried,
- miscarrying,
- miserable,
- mistimed,
- of evil portent,
- of no effect,
- off base,
- ominous,
- out of line,
- out of luck,
- out of phase,
- out of place,
- out of time,
- pathetic,
- pitiable,
- planet-struck,
- poor,
- poor unfortunate,
- portending,
- portentous,
- premature,
- regrettable,
- ruinous,
- sad,
- sad sack,
- schlemiel,
- schlimazel,
- short of luck,
- sinister,
- somber,
- star-crossed,
- starred,
- stickit,
- stillborn,
- successless,
- sure loser,
- terrible,
- threatening,
- too late,
- too soon,
- tragic,
- unbefitting,
- unblessed,
- underprivileged,
- undesirable,
- unfavorable,
- unfit,
- unfitting,
- unhandy,
- unhappy,
- unlucky,
- unmeet,
- unprofitable,
- unpromising,
- unpropitious,
- unprosperous,
- unprovidential,
- unready,
- unripe,
- unseasonable,
- unseemly,
- unsuccessful,
- unsuitable,
- untimely,
- untoward,
- unwise,
- upsetting,
- useless,
- victim,
- woebegone,
- woeful,
- wretched,
- wrong
- babble,
- be insane,
- carouse,
- create a disturbance,
- create a riot,
- cut loose,
- dote,
- drivel,
- drool,
- go berserk,
- have a demon,
- make a commotion,
- make an ado,
- make trouble,
- rage,
- raise a ruckus,
- raise a rumpus,
- raise a storm,
- ramble,
- rant,
- rave,
- riot,
- roil,
- roister,
- run mad,
- run riot,
- run wild,
- slaver,
- slobber,
- wander
- advance,
- commute,
- continue,
- course,
- cover ground,
- drift along,
- elapse,
- endure,
- expire,
- fare,
- fare forth,
- fetch,
- flit,
- flow,
- flow on,
- fly,
- gang,
- glide,
- go,
- go along,
- go by,
- go on,
- hie,
- jog on,
- lapse,
- last,
- march on,
- move,
- move along,
- move on,
- pass,
- pass by,
- press on,
- proceed,
- progress,
- roll,
- rub on,
- run,
- run its course,
- run on,
- run out,
- sashay,
- slide,
- slip,
- stream,
- travel,
- wayfare,
- wend
- alight upon,
- arrive at,
- arrive upon,
- blunder upon,
- bump into,
- chance upon,
- come across,
- come at,
- come on,
- come up against,
- come upon,
- discover serendipitously,
- encounter,
- fall in with,
- fall upon,
- get at,
- happen upon,
- hit upon,
- light upon,
- meet up with,
- meet with,
- pitch upon,
- reach,
- run across,
- run into,
- run up against,
- strike upon,
- stumble on,
- tumble on
- alight upon,
- arrive at,
- arrive upon,
- blunder upon,
- bump into,
- chance upon,
- come across,
- come at,
- come down on,
- come on,
- come up against,
- come upon,
- descend upon,
- discover serendipitously,
- drop on,
- encounter,
- fall in with,
- fall on,
- fall upon,
- get at,
- happen upon,
- light upon,
- meet up with,
- meet with,
- pitch upon,
- reach,
- run across,
- run into,
- run up against,
- settle on,
- strike upon,
- stumble on,
- stumble upon,
- tumble on
- schlemiel
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- (Yiddish) a dolt who is a habitual bungler related words >
- shakedown
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- extortion of money (as by blackmail)
- a very thorough search of a person or a place; "a shakedown by the police uncovered the drugs"
- initial adjustments to improve the functioning or the efficiency and to bring to a more satisfactory state; "the new industry's economic shakedown"
- intended to test a new system under operating conditions and to familiarize the operators with the system; "a shakedown cruise" related words >
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