N. circumstance, situation, phase, position, # posture, attitude, place, point, terms,
regime, footing, standing, status, occasion,
juncture,
conjunctive,
contingency,
predicament,
emergence,
emergency,
exigency,
crisis,
pinch, pass,
push, occurrence, turning point, bearings, how the land lies, surroundings,
context, environment 229a, location 184,
contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475, causation 153, attribution 155
Adv. in the circumstances, under the circumstances, the circumstances, conditions, thus, in such wise, accordingly, that being the case, such being the case, in view of the circumstances, that being so,
sith, since, seeing that, as matters stand, as things go, as times go,
conditionally, provided, if, in case, if so, if so be, if it be so, depending on circumstances, in certain circumstances, under certain conditions, if it so happen, if it so turn out, in the event of, in such a contingency, in such a case, in such an event,
provisionally, unless, without, according to circumstances, according to the occasion, as it may happen, as it may turn out, as it may be, as the case may be, as the wind blows, pro re nata
Phr. "yet are my sins not those of circumstance", 1, absolute relation
N. eventuality, event, occurrence, incident,
affair, matter, thing,
episode, happening, proceeding,
contingency,
juncture, experience, fact, matter of fact, naked fact, bare facts, just the facts, phenomenon,
advent, business,
concern,
transaction, dealing, proceeding, circumstance, particular,
casualty, accident,
adventure, passage,
crisis, pass,
emergency,
contingency, consequence, opportunity (occasion) 143, the world, life, things, doings, affairs in general, things in general, affairs in general, the times, state of affairs, order of the day, course of things, tide of things, stream of things, current of things, run of things, march of things, course of events, ups and downs of life, vicissitudes of life, chapter of accidents, situation
V. happen, occur, take place, take effect, come, become of, come off, comeabout, come round, come into existence, come forth, come to pass, come on, pass, present itself, fall, fall out, turn out, run, be on foot, fall in,
befall,
betide,
bechance, prove,
eventuate, draw on, turn up, crop up, spring up, pop up, arise, show up, show its face, appear, come forth, cast up,
supervene,
survene, issue, arrive,
ensue, arise, start, hold, take its course, pass off, meet with, experience, enjoy,
encounter, undergo, suffer, pass through, go through, be subjected to, be exposed to, fall to the lot of, be one's chance, be one's fortune, be one's lot, find,
endure Adj. happening, going on, doing, current, in the wind, in the air,
afloat, on foot,
afoot, on the tapis, at issue, in question,
incidental, eventful,
stirring,
bustling, full of incident, memorable,
momentous, signal
Adv. eventually, in the event of, in case, just in case, in the course of things, as things, times go, as the world goes, wags, as the tree falls, cat jumps, as it may turn out, happen
Phr. that's the way the ball bounces, that's the way the cookie crumbles, you never know what may turn up, you never know what the future will bring, the plot thickens, "breasts the blows of circumstance", "so runs round of life from hour to hour" "sprinkled along the waste of years", future events
N. chance, indetermination, accident, fortune,
hazard,
hap,
haphazard, chance medley,
random,
luck, raccroc,
casualty,
contingence,
adventure,
hit, fate, equal chance,
lottery, tombola, toss up, turn of the table, turn of the cards, hazard of the die, chapter of accidents, fickle finger of fate, cast of the dice, throw of the dice, heads or tails, flip of a coin, wheel of fortune, sortes, sortes virgilianae, probability, possibility, odds, long odds, run of luck, accidentalness, main chance, odds on, favorable odds,
contingency, dependence (uncertainty) 475, situation (circumstance) 8, statistics, theory of probabilities, theory of chances,
bookmaking, assurance, speculation, gaming
V. chance,
hap, turn up, fall to one's lot, be one's -fate, stumble on light upon, take one's chance
Adj. casual,
fortuitous, accidental,
adventitious, causeless,
incidental,
contingent, uncaused, undetermined,
indeterminate,
random,
statistical, possible,
unintentional Adv. by chance, accidentally, by accident,
casually,
perchance, for aught one knows, as good would have it, as bad would have it, as luck would have it, as ill-luck would have it, as chance would have it, as it may be, as it may chance, as it may turn up, as it may happen, as the case may be
Phr. "grasps the skirts of happy chance", "the accident of an accident", "there but for the grace of god go i." 2, connection between cause and effect
V. be -liable,
incur, lay oneself open to, run the chance, stand a chance, lie under, expose oneself to, open a door to
Adj. liable, subject, in danger, open to, exposed to, obnoxious to, answerable, unexempt from, apt to, dependent on, incident to,
contingent,
incidental, possible, on the cards, within range of, at the mercy of, 5, combinations of causes
N. qualification,
limitation, modification, # coloring, allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances,
mitigation, condition,
proviso, prerequisite,
contingency,
stipulation, provision,
specification, sine qua non, catch, string, strings attached,
exemption, exception, escape clause,
salvo, saving clause, discount,
restriction, fine print
V. qualify, limit,
modify,
leaven, give a color to, introduce new conditions, narrow, temper,
waffle,
quibble, hem and haw (be uncertain) 475, equivocate (sophistry) 477, depend, depend on, be contingent on (effect) 154, allow for, make allowance for, admit exceptions, take into account,
modulate, moderate, temper, season,
leaven, take exception
Adv. provided, provided that, provided always, if, unless, but, yet, according as,
conditionally, admitting, supposing, on the supposition of, with the understanding, even, although, though, for all that, after all, at all events, approximately, 17, in a limited degree (smallness) 32, somewhat, sort of, something like that, to a certain extent, to a degree, in a sense, so to speak, with grains of allowance, cum grano salis, exceptis excipiendis, wind and weather permitting, if possible, subject to, conditioned upon, with this proviso
Phr. "if the good lord is willing and the creeks don't rise", catch-22, degrees of evidence
V. be possible, stand a chance, admit of, bear, render possible, put in the way of
Adj. possible, in the cards, on the dice,
in posse, within the bounds of possibility, conceivable,
credible,
compatible, likely, practicable,
feasible, performable,
achievable, within reach, within measurable distance, accessible,
superable,
surmountable, attainable, obtainable,
contingent, (effect) 154, barely possible, marginally possible, just possible, possible but improbably, (improbable) 473, theoretically possible
Adv. possibly, by possibility, perhaps,
perchance,
peradventure,
maybe, may be,
haply,
mayhap, if possible, wind and weather permitting, god willing, deo volente, d, v, as luck may have it
Phr. misericordia domini inter pontem et fontent, "the glories of the possible are ours", anything is possible, in theory possible, but in practise unlikely
N. uncertainty,
incertitude, doubt, doubtfulness,
dubiety,
dubitation, dubitancy|, dubitousness,
hesitation,
suspense,
perplexity,
embarrassment,
dilemma,
bewilderment,
timidity,
vacillation,
diaporesis, indetermination, vagueness,
haze,
fog, obscurity,
ambiguity,
contingency,
dependence,
dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility, open question, onus probandi, blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other, needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay, roving commission,
precariousness,
fallibility V. be uncertain, wonder whether, lose the clue, lose the clew,
scent, miss one's way, not know what to make of, not know which way to turn, not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels, float in a sea of doubt,
hesitate,
flounder, lose oneself, lose one's head, muddle one's brains, render uncertain, put out,
pose,
puzzle,
perplex,
embarrass,
confuse,
confound,
bewilder, bother,
molder, addle the wits, throw off the scent, ambiguas in vulgus spargere voces, keep in suspense, doubt, hang in the balance, tremble in the balance, depend
Adj. uncertain,
casual,
random, changeable, doubtful,
dubious, indecisive, unsettled, undecided, undetermined, in suspense, open to discussion,
controvertible, in question, vague,
indeterminate, indefinite,
ambiguous,
equivocal, undefined,
undefinable, confused,
mystic,
oracular,
dazed,
perplexing,
enigmatic,
paradoxical,
apocryphal,
problematical,
hypothetical, experimental, unpredictable, unforeseeable (unknowable) 519, fallible, questionable,
precarious,
slippery,
ticklish,
debatable, disputable,
unreliable, untrustworthy,
contingent, contingent on, dependent on, subject to, dependent on circumstances, occasional,
provisional, unauthentic,
unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unascertained, unconfirmed, undemonstrated, untold, uncounted, in a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze,
bushed, off the track, ignorant,
&c. 491, afraid to say, out of one's reckoning,
astray,
adrift, at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus,
puzzled, lost, abroad, dsorient, distracted,
distraught Adv. pendente lite, sub spe rati
Phr. heaven knows, who can tell? who shall decide when doctors disagree? ambiguas in vulgum spargere voces
