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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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