单词	chancy
释义	chancy adjective ˈchan(t)-sē  chancier; chanciest 1 Scotland : bringing good luck : auspicious 2 : uncertain in outcome or prospect : risky 3 : occurring by chance : haphazard chanciness noun Example Sentences Building your own home is a chancy business. Opening a new restaurant can be chancy. Recent Examples on the Web Lifelong recommendations based on studies of roughly 50 patients and for no longer than three months seem a bit chancy. WSJ, 13 Sep. 2018 The early concerts have had a biting, chancy energy. New York Times, 21 June 2018 In a curious twist, Gunderson takes the story in an extremely chancy direction during the show’s final minutes. David Lyman, Cincinnati.com, 14 Apr. 2018 George Washington's chancy nighttime retreat from Brooklyn to Manhattan was a kind of Colonial-era Dunkirk. Benedict Cosgrove, Smithsonian, 13 Mar. 2017 In the 4500 block of Connecticut Avenue NW, Jeff Lucas watched a driver plow through the brown and turbulent waters in what had momentarily seemed to be a chancy undertaking. Martin Weil, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017 The point is that reporting on alleged facts that won’t take place for a decade or more in the future is chancy at best. Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 14 July 2017 Steve Jobs was making what was at the time an extraordinarily chancy wager. Edward C. Baig, USA TODAY, 23 June 2017 Over a driving funk vamp, he and Ronald Bruner work as a percussive unit; each note has heft and precision, but a chancy momentum too. Giovanni Russonello, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2017 See More Word History Etymology chance entry 1 + -y entry 1 First Known Use circa 1522, in the meaning defined at sense 1 chancy adjective as in chance Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance chance fortuitous haphazard random accidental inadvertent lucky incidental unpremeditated unplanned desultory flukey hit-or-miss unconsidered slapdash erratic spot stray arbitrary aimless fluky unintended scattershot unintentional scattered contingent unsystematic catch-as-catch-can helter-skelter casual sporadic purposeless odd shotgun indiscriminate directionless irregular objectless unselective disorderly disorganized undirected undiscriminating Antonyms & Near Antonyms orderly regular systematic methodical steady stable regular even organized continuous constant methodic nonrandom fixed established arranged systematized deliberate planned set aware conscious purposeful wilful ordered managed thoughtful willful orchestrated See More
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