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Synonyms for luck
lʌkluck

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  1. lucknoun

    Synonyms:
    fortune

  2. lucknoun

    To succeed by chance

    His plan lucked out.

    Synonyms:
    fortune

  3. lucknoun

    To rely on luck.

    No plan. We're just to going to have to luck through.

    Synonyms:
    fortune

  4. luckverb

    To carry out relying on luck.

    Our plan is to luck it through.

    Synonyms:
    fortune

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 3 votes

  1. 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, destiny, deal, serving, dowery, dower, percentage, caboodle, hazard, wad, flock, hatful, mickle, component, slew, heap, mess, part, bunch, sight, circumstances, mountain, draw, helping, component part, set, great deal, pot, circle

  2. luck, fortune, chance, hazardnoun

    an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that causes an event to result one way rather than another

    "bad luck caused his downfall"; "we ran into each other by pure chance"

    Synonyms:
    circumstances, jeopardy, chance, lot, risk, destiny, fortune, prospect, hazard, peril, portion, fate, opportunity, probability, endangerment

  3. luck, fortunenoun

    an unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome

    "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand"

    Synonyms:
    circumstances, chance, lot, destiny, fortune, hazard, portion, fate

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. lucknoun

    Synonyms:
    chance, fortune, hazard, hap, haphazard, fate

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. lucknoun

    Synonyms:
    fortune, chance, fortuity, haphazard, chance, hap-hazard

    Associated words:
    mascot, hoodoo

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  1. LUCK

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How to use luck in a sentence?

  1. Irish Proverb:

    Good luck beats early rising.

  2. Jason Robertson:

    You’ve got to make your own luck at times.

  3. Bui Thi Nhung:

    I don't want to stay home, marry young and live penniless, i'll try my luck next time.

  4. Sami Steigmann:

    Being so young, a year and a half, I obviously could not work. And most of the kids did not survive, so if you will ask any survivor ‘how come you are alive today,’ everybody will use only one word, and that is ‘luck.’.

  5. Thomas Hardy:

    Some folk want their luck buttered.


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