Meaning of CHANCY
Pronunciation: | | 'chansee
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- [adj] (informal) subject to accident or chance or change; "a chancy appeal at best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky wind"; "an iffy proposition"
- [adj] of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker
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| Synonyms: | | chanceful, dangerous, dicey, dodgy, flukey, fluky, iffy, uncertain, unsafe |
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| Definition: | | Chancy After battling gunslingers, Indians, and the ravages of the frontier, Chancy finally has a place of his own on his sprawling cattle ranch. But Chancy soon finds that his problems in the Old West have only just begun. more details ... |
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| Related Terms: | | accidental, adventitious, adventurous, agnostic, aleatoric, aleatory, ambiguous, amorphous, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad, capricious, casual, causeless, chance, changeable, chaotic, confused, contingent, destinal, dicey, disordered, doubting, equivocal, erratic, fatal, fatidic, fickle, fluctuant, fluky, foggy, fortuitous, full of risk, fuzzy, general, hairy, hazardous, hazy, hesitant, hesitating, hit-or-miss, iffy, ill-defined, imprecise, inaccurate, incalculable, inchoate, incidental, incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indemonstrable, indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, irresolute, jeopardous, lax, loose, nonspecific, obscure, on thin ice, orderless, perilous, polysemous, precarious, random, riskful, risky, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, skeptical, speculative, stochastic, sweeping, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous, tricky, unaccountable, uncaused, uncertain, unclear, unconfirmable, unconvinced, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undivinable, unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unhealthy, unlooked-for, unpersuaded, unplain, unpredictable, unprovable, unsound, unspecified, unsure, unverifiable, vague, variable, veiled, venturesome, venturous, wavering, whimsical, wicked, wildcat |
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