Synonyms for in the cards
Grammar : Adj, noun, verb |
Spell : kahrd |
Phonetic Transcription : kɑrd |
Top 10 synonyms for in the cards Other synonyms for the word in the cards
- about to happen
- accessible
- accident
- achievable
- adumbrate
- advantage
- adventure
- anticipated
- apprehend
- assume
- assuring
- at hand
- attainable
- available
- bad luck
- bargain for
- bargain on
- be afraid
- bedeviled
- believable
- believeable
- bewitched
- big break
- blessing
- booked
- break
- brewing
- budgeted
- calculate
- calculation
- call the turn
- cast
- casualty
- certain
- close
- close at hand
- closed
- closing
- coincidence
- coming up
- compelled
- compulsory
- conceivable
- conclude
- condemned
- conditional
- conjecturable
- conjecture
- consequent
- contemplate
- contemplation
- contingency
- contingent
- convicted
- count on
- credible
- cursed
- cut down
- damned
- dead duck
- definite
- demonstrate
- dependent
- designed
- destination
- destined
- destiny
- destroyed
- determine
- directed
- disposed
- divine
- done
- done for
- doom
- doomed
- dope out
- down the line
- down the pike
- down the road
- earthly
- ending
- endmost
- ensuing
- envisage
- estimate
- even chance
- eventual
- expectancy
- expectant
- expectation
- expected
- fair
- familiar
- fast-approaching
- fated
- favorite
- feasible
- feel
- fey
- figure
- figure out
- final
- fixed
- fluke
- following
- forecast
- foreknow
- foreordained
- foresee
- foretell
- forthcoming
- fortuity
- fortunateness
- fortune
- from here in
- from here on
- from here to eternity
- from now on in
- future
- gamble
- gather
- gathering
- gauge
- given to
- godsend
- good luck
- handwriting-on-the-wall
- hanging over
- hap
- haphazard
- happening
- happiness
- hazard
- heads or tails
- health
- hindmost
- hit
- hope
- hope for
- hovering
- ill-fated
- ill-omened
- illusory
- imaginable
- imagine
- immediate
- imminent
- impending
- in evidence
- in favor of
- in preparation
- in prospect
- in store
- in the air
- in the cards
- in the course of time
- in the habit of
- in the offing
- in the wind
- in view
- inclined
- indirect
- ineluctable
- inescapable
- inevasible
- inevitable
- inexorable
- infer
- inferable
- instant
- intended
- irons in the fire
- just around the corner
- karma
- kismet
- kiss of death
- last
- later
- latter
- liable
- likelihood
- likely
- look
- look ahead to
- look for
- look forward to
- looked toward
- looking to
- looming
- lost
- lot
- lottery
- luck out
- luckiness
- luckless
- lucky break
- meant
- menaced
- menacing
- misfortune
- mortal
- most likely
- near
- nearing
- next
- nigh
- obtainable
- occasion
- occurrence
- odds
- odds-on
- old hat
- ominous
- on its way
- on tap
- on the horizon
- on the verge
- on the verge of
- oncoming
- open
- opening
- opportunity
- ordained
- ordinary
- ostensible
- outcome
- overall
- overhanging
- overthrown
- overwhelmed
- pending
- peradventure
- peril
- plan
- planned
- plausible
- plotted
- portend
- portending
- possibility
- possible
- practicable
- prearranged
- precise
- predesigned
- predestined
- predetermine
- predetermined
- predict
- predisposed
- presage
- presumable
- presume
- presumed
- presumption
- presuppose
- probability
- probable
- profit
- prognosticate
- promise
- promising
- prone
- prophesy
- proposal
- prospective
- prosperity
- providence
- proximate
- que sera sera
- rational
- ready
- reason
- reasonable
- reckon
- reprobate
- resulting
- risk
- routine
- ruined
- run of luck
- scheduled
- sealed
- secondary
- see coming
- see it coming
- seeming
- sense
- sentenced
- serendipity
- set
- settled
- smile
- soothsay
- specific
- star-crossed
- stated
- streak of luck
- stroke
- stroke of luck
- subject to
- subsequent
- succeeding
- success
- sunk
- supposable
- suppose
- suppressed
- surmise
- suspect
- take
- telegraph
- tending
- terminal
- that is to be
- that will be
- think
- thinkable
- thought
- threatened
- threatening
- throw of the dice
- thrown down
- to be
- to come
- toss-up
- trite
- triumph
- true
- trust
- turn of the cards
- ulterior
- ultimate
- unavoidable
- unborn
- understand
- undone
- unescapable
- unfolding
- unfortunate
- unredeemed
- up
- up-and-coming
- upcoming
- verisimilar
- vicarious
- victory
- wait for
- waiting to
- watch for
- way the ball bounces
- way the cookie crumbles
- weal
- wealth
- wheel of fortune
- win
- windfall
- workable
- wrecked
- written
Définition of in the cards
Origin :- 1540s, "to play cards" (now obsolete), from card (n.1). From 1925 as "to write (something) on a card for filing." Meaning "require (someone) to show ID" is from 1970s. Related: Carded; carding.
- As in likely : adj probable, apt, hopeful
- As in probable : adj likely to happen
- As in cut-and-dried : adj decided and fixed
- As in destined : adj bound for, fated in near future
- As in doomed : adj condemned, hopeless
- As in eventual : adj future, concluding
- As in forthcoming : adj expected, imminent
- As in future : adj to come; expected
- As in imminent : adj at hand, on the way
- As in impending : adj forthcoming
- As in luck : noun good fortune
- As in prospect : noun outlook for future
- As in chance : noun fate, luck
- As in luckiness : noun luck
- As in expect : verb believe strongly; anticipate
- As in forecast : verb predict, guess
Antonyms for in the cards
- aim
- assurance
- avoidable
- bad fortune
- bad luck
- begin
- beginning
- blessed
- bygone
- certainty
- design
- disadvantage
- disbelieve
- disregard
- distant
- doubt
- doubtful
- escapable
- failure
- far
- forfeit
- future
- gone
- hopeful
- hopelessness
- implausible
- impossibility
- impossible
- improbable
- inapt
- inconceivable
- intact
- know
- later
- law
- loss
- lucky
- misfortune
- misunderstand
- neglect
- never
- nice
- overlook
- past
- plan
- poverty
- protected
- protection
- reality
- remote
- restored
- sadness
- safeguard
- safety
- saved
- scheme
- sorrow
- start
- successful
- surety
- unbelievable
- unforeseeable
- unhappiness
- unlikelihood
- unlikely
- unreasonable
- unscheduled
- unsettled
- vague
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