Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Uncertain as to outcome; risky; hazardous.
- adj. Random; haphazard.
- adj. Scots Lucky; propitious.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Uncertain; changeful.
- Fortunate; lucky; propitious; foreboding good: applied to either persons or things, and generally used with a negative in the sense of uncanny: thus, persons suspected of possessing magical arts are regarded as not (or no) chancy.
- Favorable; safe: as, a chancy wind: generally used with a negative: as, not chancy (that is, dangerous).
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. depending on chance.
- adj. subject to accident or chance or change.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. subject to accident or chance or change
- adj. of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk
Examples
“Accepting Loyal Achates at his word chancy I know I must say that I find it odd that he, suffering with a genetic disorder which supposedly claims its victims lives at an early age, is alive at the age of 24 presumably without any medical intervention.”
“Some would call it chancy, precarious, very dangerous or whatever, but sometimes we walk through those doors and at best, have called it foolishness, of which we wouldn’t have had the really good time we did, should we have elected to always close those doors …”
“So jump on the "chancy" Obama boat and pray it will stay afloat!”
“But I'll tell you, it's been really kind of chancy at times.”
“His good old wife had gotten down her best "chancy," white with blue rimming, while the cloth on the table was as white as snow, and the floor spotlessly neat with its heavy sprinkling of white sand.”
The old plantation : how we lived in great house and cabin before the war,
“Hence it is 'chancy' whether a particular individual will find a job.”
“The writing enterprise seemed to me self-evidently a desperate one, and though my mother and I - both only children – had been desperate enough to undertake it, I thought my children, raised in a gentler, undepressed, gregarious world, would seek out less chancy and more orthodox professions.”
“The measures that may dampen demand are secondary and chancy.”
“Don't take chancy shots, don't blast away at running deer 400 yards away, if you must use "BUCKSHOT" please be close and if you see poachers-TURN THEM IN!”
“Maybe its mere presence in my home will have some giant cascade effect, rippling through my universe, enlivening my entire life, bringing me out of Comfortable and into Fabulous Adventure, but without me having to actually do anything chancy.”
The Huffington Post: Meredith Fein Lichtenberg, CCE: Toy Story: Motherhood and Sexual Healing
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chancy’.
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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GMAT
part of speech, frown, brow, immensely, immense, incomprehensible, toil, concision, concise, proper noun, hyphenated, dash and 190 more...
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Henderson the Rain King
Words taken from Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.
yellowback, unkillable, swack, hoarfrost, decapotable, brownian, mackinaw, taxwise, oratorio, picaresque, masonite, catalpa and 109 more...
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Amusing words
interesting words
bonce, furcate, tapioca, tillage, desalinate, garish, litmus, roadhog, azoic, haberdasher, imbroglio, polliwog and 802 more...
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Remember and Use!
motherese, chancy, paraphrase, drippy, reluctant, oblivious, captivating, inevitable, sophisticated, naïveté, thought-provoking, hypochondriac and 18 more...
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