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chancy
(encz) | chancy,nejistý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
chancy
(encz) | chancy,riskantní adj: Zdeněk Brož |
chancy
(gcide) | chancy \chancy\ adj.
1. depending on chance.
Syn: chanceful, dicey, dodgy, hazardous, risky.
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2. subject to accident or chance or change.
Syn: fluky, flukey, iffy.
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chancy
(wn) | chancy
adj 1: of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk; "an
extremely dicey future on a brave new world of liquid
nitrogen, tar, and smog"- New Yorker [syn: chancy,
chanceful, dicey, dodgy]
2: subject to accident or chance or change; "a chancy appeal at
best"; "getting that job was definitely fluky"; "a fluky
wind"; "an iffy proposition" [syn: chancy, fluky,
flukey, iffy] |
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no chancy
(encz) | no chancy, |
trenchancy
(encz) | trenchancy,ostrost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Couchancy
(gcide) | Couchancy \Couch"an*cy\ (kouch"an-s?), n.
State of lying down for repose. [R.]
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Unchancy
(gcide) | Unchancy \Un*chan"cy\, a. [Pref un- + Scot. chancy fortunate,
safe.]
1. Happening at a bad time; unseasonable; inconvenient. --A.
Trollope.
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2. Ill-fated; unlucky. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
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3. Unsafe to meddle with; dangerous. [Scot.]
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trenchancy
(wn) | trenchancy
n 1: keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or
intellect [syn: incisiveness, trenchancy] |
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