Antonyms for chancy

Grammar : Adj

Spell : chan-see, chahn-

Phonetic Transcription : ˈtʃæn si, ˈtʃɑn-

Definition of chancy

Origin : 1510s, "lucky, foreboding good fortune," from chance (n.) + -y (2). Meaning "uncertain, subject to risk" is recorded from 1860. The possible sense "full of opportunity" seems to have been used regularly only in cricket (1875).

adj dangerous, risky

Example sentences :

The struggle for life was difficult and chancy in the islands in those days.
Extract from : « Following the Equator, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

Hopalong smiled, turned to Buck and related his conversation with Chancy.
Extract from : « Hopalong Cassidy's Rustler Round-Up » by Clarence Edward Mulford

Hugh de Moreville is a man whom it is not chancy to meddle with.
Extract from : « Runnymede and Lincoln Fair » by J.G. Edgar

To get a light in this way was the most chancy thing in the world.
Extract from : « Summer Days in Shakespeare Land » by Charles G. Harper

A dark road, pitted with shell holes and slimy with mud, is chancy.
Extract from : « Golden Lads » by Arthur Gleason and Helen Hayes Gleason

You know what a hazardous, chancy, short-lived thing is the fashion of a woman.
Extract from : « Phineas Redux » by Anthony Trollope

Matron Kowalski on night duty had a habit of turning that light off and on at chancy intervals after midnight.
Extract from : « The Trial of Callista Blake » by Edgar Pangborn

Next comes anywhere in the barrel forward of the short ribs--a chancy proceeding, and one leading to long chases.
Extract from : « The Leopard Woman » by Stewart Edward White

It was a chancy plan at best, and would probably break down long before any visit could be made to the city.
Extract from : « The Ethical Engineer » by Henry Maxwell Dempsey

It might be chancy, opening that door; so he peered through a narrow crack at first, listening intently.
Extract from : « Merton of the Movies » by Harry Leon Wilson

Synonyms for chancy

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