Word Meanings - LUCK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual

Additional info about word: LUCK

That which happens to a person; an event, good or ill, affecting one's interests or happiness, and which is deemed casual; a course or series of such events regarded as occurring by chance; chance; hap; fate; fortune; often, one's habitual or characteristic fortune; as, good, bad, ill, or hard luck. Luck is often used for good luck; as, luck is better than skill. If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose; and of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds. Shak. Luck penny, a small sum given back for luck to one who pays money. -- To be is luck, to receive some good, or to meet with some success, in an unexpected manner, or as the result of circumstances beyond one's control; to be fortunate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LUCK)

• Chance
• Accident
• fortuity
• hazard
• haphazard
• fortune
• random
• casualty
• befoulment
• luck
• Prosperity
• Success
• weal
• welfare
• good fortune
• well-being
• good luck
• Achievement
• consummation
• prosperity
• victory
• good-fortune
• Venture
• Speculation
• risk
• chance
• stake
• undertaking
• experiment
• throw
• Welfare
• Well-being
• success
• happiness
• thrift

Related words: (words related to LUCK)

• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• THRIFTINESS
  The quality or state of being thrifty; thrift.
• VICTORY
  The defeat of an enemy in battle, or of an antagonist in any contest; a gaining of the superiority in any struggle or competition; conquest; triumph; -- the opposite of Ant: defeat. Death is swallowed up in victory. 1 Cor. xv. 54. God on our side,
• SUCCESS
  1. Act of succeeding; succession. Then all the sons of these five brethren reigned By due success. Spenser. 2. That which comes after; hence, consequence, issue, or result, of an endeavor or undertaking, whether good or bad; the outcome of effort.
• 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.
• PROSPERITY
  The state of being prosperous; advance or gain in anything good or desirable; successful progress in any business or enterprise; attainment of the object desired; good fortune; success; as, commercial prosperity; national prosperity. Now prosperity
• SUCCESSLESS
  Having no success. Successless all her soft caresses prove. Pope. -- Suc*cess"less*ly, adv. -- Suc*cess"less*ness, n.
• EXPERIMENTIST
  An experimenter.
• THROW
  Pain; especially, pain of travail; throe. Spenser. Dryden.
• THRIFTILY
  1. In a thrifty manner. 2. Carefully; properly; becomingly. A young clerk . . . in Latin thriftily them gret . Chaucer.
• THROWING
  a. & n. from Throw, v. Throwing engine, Throwing mill, Throwing table, or Throwing wheel , a machine on which earthenware is first rudely shaped by the hand of the potter from a mass of clay revolving rapidly on a disk or table carried
• EXPERIMENTATOR
  An experimenter.
• CHANCEFUL
  Hazardous. Spenser.
• FORTUNELESS
  Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
• EXPERIMENTER
  One who makes experiments; one skilled in experiments. Faraday.
• RANDOMLY
  In a random manner.
• SUCCESSION
  1. The act of succeeding, or following after; a following of things in order of time or place, or a series of things so following; sequence; as, a succession of good crops; a succession of disasters. 2. A series of persons or things according to
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• UNTHRIFTY
  Not thrifty; profuse. Spenser.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• MISTHROW
  To throw wrongly.
• 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.