Chancy

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  • adjective. Uncertain as to outcome; risky; hazardous.
  • adjective. Random; haphazard.
  • adjective. Lucky; propitious.
  • The 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).
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. depending on chance.
  • adjective. subject to accident or chance or change.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. uncertain, risky, hazardous
  • adjective. subject to chance; random
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. subject to accident or chance or change
  • adjective. of uncertain outcome; especially fraught with risk
  • Word Usage
    "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."
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    Nancy  clancy  dancey  dancy  fancy  
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