Word Meanings - JEOPARDY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger. There came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy. Luke viii. 23. Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy. Shak. Syn. -- Danger; peril; hazard; risk.

Additional info about word: JEOPARDY

Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger. There came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy. Luke viii. 23. Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy. Shak. Syn. -- Danger; peril; hazard; risk. See Danger. (more info) an even game, a game in which the chances are even; OF. jeu, ju, F. jeu + F. partier to divide, L. partire to divide. See

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of JEOPARDY)

• Danger
• Peril
• hazard
• risk
• jeopardy
• insecurity
• venture
• Hazard
• danger
• chance
• imperil
• dare
• uncertainty
• unsafety
• Risk
• peril
• exposure

Related words: (words related to JEOPARDY)

• PERILOUS
  1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• PERILLA
  A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• CHANCE
  Probability. Note: The mathematical expression, of a chance is the ratio of frequency with which an event happens in the long run. If an event may happen in a ways and may fail in b ways, and each of these a + b ways is equally likely, the chance,
• CHANCELLORSHIP
  The office of a chancellor; the time during which one is chancellor.
• CHANCEL
  lattices, crossbars. (The chancel was formerly inclosed with lattices That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. Hence, in modern use; All that part of a cruciform church which is
• DANGERLESS
  Free from danger.
• CHANCEABLY
  By chance.
• VENTURER
  1. One who ventures, or puts to hazard; an adventurer. Beau. & Fl. 2. A strumpet; a prostitute. J. Webster .
• CHANCERY
  1. In England, formerly, the highest court of judicature next to the Parliament, exercising jurisdiction at law, but chiefly in equity; but under the jurisdiction act of 1873 it became the chancery division of the High Court of Justice, and now
• HAZARDRY
  1. Playing at hazard; gaming; gambling. Chaucer. 2. Rashness; temerity. Spenser.
• HAZARDER
  1. A player at the game of hazard; a gamester. Chaucer. 2. One who hazards or ventures.
• IMPERIL
  To bring into peril; to endanger.
• HAZARDOUS
  Exposed to hazard; dangerous; risky. To enterprise so hazardous and high! Milton. Syn. -- Perilous; dangerous; bold; daring; adventurous; venturesome; precarious; uncertain. -- Haz"ard*ous*ly, adv. -- Haz"ard*ous*ness, n.
• HAZARD
  Holing a ball, whether the object ball or the player's ball . 5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. "Your latter hazard." Shak. Hazard table, a a table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes. --
• JEOPARDY
  Exposure to death, loss, or injury; hazard; danger. There came down a storm of wind on the lake; and they were filled with water, and were in jeopardy. Luke viii. 23. Look to thyself, thou art in jeopardy. Shak. Syn. -- Danger; peril; hazard; risk.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• AVENTURE
  A mischance causing a person's death without felony, as by drowning, or falling into the fire. (more info) 1. Accident; chance; adventure. Chaucer.
• ARCHCHANCELLOR
  A chief chancellor; -- an officer in the old German empire, who presided over the secretaries of the court.
• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• SLIPPERILY
  In a slippery manner.
• PERCHANCE
  By chance; perhaps; peradventure.
• DISADVENTURE
  Misfortune; mishap. Sir W. Raleigh.
• COADVENTURER
  A fellow adventurer.
• COADVENTURE
  An adventure in which two or more persons are partakers.
• MISCHANCE
  Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak. Syn. -- Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity.
• BECHANCE
  By chance; by accident. Grafton.
• ADVENTURESOME
  Full of risk; adventurous; venturesome. -- Ad*ven"ture*some*ness, n.