Word Meanings - HAZARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Holing a ball, whether the object ball or the player's ball . 5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. "Your latter hazard." Shak. Hazard table, a a table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes. --

Additional info about word: HAZARD

Holing a ball, whether the object ball or the player's ball . 5. Anything that is hazarded or risked, as the stakes in gaming. "Your latter hazard." Shak. Hazard table, a a table on which hazard is played, or any game of chance for stakes. -- To ru, to take the chance or risk. Syn. -- Danger; risk; chance. See Danger. (more info) accident, an unfortunate card or throw at dice, prob. fr. Ar. zahr, zar, a die, which, with the article al the, would give azzahr, 1. A game of chance played with dice. Chaucer. 2. The uncertain result of throwing a die; hence, a fortuitous event; chance; accident; casualty. I will stand the hazard of the die. Shak. 3. Risk; danger; peril; as, he encountered the enemy at the hazard of his reputation and life. Men are led on from one stage of life to another in a condition of the utmost hazard. Rogers 4. (Billiards

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HAZARD)

• Accident
• Chance
• fortuity
• disaster
• incident
• adventure
• casualty
• hazard
• contingency
• calamity
• misadventure
• mishap
• Adventure
• Incident
• crisis
• chance
• occurrence
• event
• enterprise
• undertaking
• experiment
• venture
• trial
• romance
• haphazard
• fortune
• random
• befoulment
• luck
• Danger
• Peril
• risk
• jeopardy
• insecurity
• Dare
• Venture
• face
• brave
• defy
• challenge

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of HAZARD)

• Pass
• allow
• grant
• concede

Related words: (words related to HAZARD)

• ENTERPRISER
  One who undertakes enterprises. Sir J. Hayward.
• ACCIDENTALLY
  In an accidental manner; unexpectedly; by chance; unintentionally; casually; fortuitously; not essentially.
• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• PERILOUS
  1. Full of, attended with, or involving, peril; dangerous; hazardous; as, a perilous undertaking. Infamous hills, and sandy, perilous wilds. Milton. 2. Daring; reckless; dangerous. Latimer. For I am perilous with knife in hand. Chaucer.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• TRIALITY
  Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton.
• PERILLA
  A genus of labiate herbs, of which one species (Perilla ocimoides, or P. Nankinensis) is often cultivated for its purple or variegated foliage.
• EXPERIMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to experiment; founded on, or derived from, experiment or trial; as, experimental science; given to, or skilled in, experiment; as, an experimental philosopher. 2. Known by, or derived from, experience; as, experimental religion.
• EVENT
  1. That which comes, arrives, or happens; that which falls out; any incident, good or bad. "The events of his early years." Macaulay. To watch quietly the course of events. Jowett There is one event to the righteous, and to the wicked. Eccl. ix.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• ALLOWEDLY
  By allowance; admittedly. Shenstone.
• ALLOW
  allocare to admit as proved, to place, use; confused with OF. aloer, fr. L. allaudare to extol; ad + laudare to praise. See Local, and cf. 1. To praise; to approve of; hence, to sanction. Ye allow the deeds of your fathers. Luke xi. 48. We commend
• ALLOWER
  1. An approver or abettor. 2. One who allows or permits.
• EVENTILATION
  The act of eventilating; discussion. Bp. Berkely.
• ENTERPRISE
  1. That which is undertaken; something attempted to be performed; a work projected which involves activity, courage, energy, and the like; a bold, arduous, or hazardous attempt; an undertaking; as, a manly enterprise; a warlike enterprise. Shak.
• ADVENTURESS
  A female adventurer; a woman who tries to gain position by equivocal means.
• EXPERIMENTIST
  An experimenter.
• BRAVENESS
  The quality of state or being brave.
• EXPERIMENTATOR
  An experimenter.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• SALLOWISH
  Somewhat sallow. Dickens.
• WALLOWER
  A lantern wheel; a trundle. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, wallows.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• IMMIGRANT
  One who immigrates; one who comes to a country for the purpose of permanent residence; -- correlative of emigrant. Syn. -- See Emigrant.