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Antonyms 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

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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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. lucknoun

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

    Associated words:
    mascot, hoodoo

How to use luck in a sentence?

  1. English Proverb:

    Most people fail in life not because of luck, but because of lack of direction,dedication, and discipline. _Mehraj Mubarak

  2. Christopher William Bradshaw Isherwood:

    Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination.

  3. Red Bulls:

    Finally, today, I had a bit of luck. My team know I love them and I want to do this with them for the next 10 or 15 years !

  4. Thomas Hardy:

    Some folk want their luck buttered.

  5. Romain Bardet:

    A spoke broke and I had to swap bikes with Tony (Gallopin). Then I had to chase and that effort was fatal, it's never good to lose time. There are a lot of twists on the Tour and this time luck was not on our side.

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