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Synonyms for circumstances
cir·cum·stances
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Princeton's WordNet
fortune, destiny, fate, luck, lot, circumstances, portionnoun
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"
Synonyms:
tidy sum, fortune, fate, peck, mint, band, plenty, lot, batch, raft, quite a little, passel, portion, parcel, dowry, spate, muckle, mass, constituent, pile, share, good deal, stack, chance, luck, destiny, deal, serving, dowery, dower, percentage, caboodle, hazard, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, component, slew, heap, mess, part, bunch, sight, mountain, draw, helping, component part, set, great deal, pot, circlecircumstancesnoun
a person's financial situation (good or bad)
"he found himself in straitened circumstances"
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
circumstancesnoun
Synonyms:
situation, condition, position, state of affairs, pecuniary standing
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "circumstances":
conditions, situations, cases, situation, circumstance, case, instances, contexts, facts
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#189 | set | |
#207 | part | |
#287 | case | |
#452 | conditions | |
#660 | share | |
#748 | lot | |
#929 | cases | |
#1173 | band | |
#1274 | deal | |
#1521 | mountain | |
#1885 | chance | |
#1902 | situation | |
#2009 | mass | |
#2040 | component | |
#2236 | facts | |
#2653 | serving | |
#3111 | percentage | |
#3151 | helping | |
#3201 | circle | |
#3209 | circumstances | |
#3269 | portion | |
#3350 | draw | |
#4206 | luck | |
#4291 | situations | |
#4715 | plenty | |
#4976 | sight | |
#5100 | pot | |
#5177 | mint | |
#5702 | stack | |
#5816 | fortune | |
#6015 | bunch | |
#6894 | instances | |
#7304 | hazard | |
#7410 | batch | |
#7888 | fate | |
#8009 | mess | |
#8684 | parcel | |
#9247 | destiny | |
#10302 | pile | |
#11944 | contexts | |
#14364 | heap | |
#15058 | flock | |
#16298 | constituent | |
#16420 | circumstance | |
#17739 | peck | |
#21748 | raft | |
#22194 | slew | |
#36659 | wad | |
#48006 | spate | |
#55906 | dowry | |
#70968 | dower | |
#127323 | mickle | |
#138226 | caboodle | |
#149105 | muckle | |
#163107 | passel | |
#201413 | hatful |
How to use circumstances in a sentence?
Everywhere in Egypt, every city or village, has different circumstances. A certain village might have a robbery problem and so the sermon should talk about thievery. Another place might have widespread murder and that is what should be discussed.
I'm not going to sit here with the benefit of hindsight and judge the very good people who made hard decisions who were running the agency in very extraordinary circumstances at the time.
I think we have a different set of circumstances. We have a President who is very actively running for reelection, he's going to be on the ballot. People are going to be able to render a verdict on him like they couldn't on Obama. My guess is he would absolutely nominate somebody. I would be shocked if he didn't.
Rigidity can lead to vulnerability, flexibility allows for adaption to life changing circumstances.
The materiality issue is not about the death itself, but more about the circumstances of the crash and calling into question a technology that's important to Tesla's future, those are issues that investors want to know, so you could make a reasonable argument that it crossed the (materiality) line. When it's that close, the (U.S.) Securities and Exchange Commission expects disclosure.
Translations for circumstances
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- ظروفArabic
- omstændighederDanish
- περιστάσειςGreek
- circunstanciasSpanish
- موقعیتPersian
- keadaanIndonesian
- circunstânciasPortuguese
- обстоятельстваRussian
- trường hợpVietnamese
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