Chancy

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  chancy \chancy\ adj.
     1. depending on chance.
  
     Syn: chanceful, dicey, dodgy, hazardous, risky.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  


     2. subject to accident or chance or change.
  
     Syn: fluky, flukey, iffy.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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: {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: {fluky}, {flukey}, {iffy}]
       [also: {chanciest}, {chancier}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "chancy":
     accidental, adventitious, adventurous, agnostic, aleatoric,
     aleatory, ambiguous, amorphous, blobby, blurred, blurry, broad,
     capricious, casual, causeless, chance, changeable, chaotic,
     confused, contingent, destinal, dicey, disordered, doubting,
     equivocal, erratic, fatal, fatidic, fickle, fluctuant, fluky,
     foggy, fortuitous, full of risk, fuzzy, general, hairy, hazardous,
     hazy, hesitant, hesitating, hit-or-miss, iffy, ill-defined,
     imprecise, inaccurate, incalculable, inchoate, incidental,
     incoherent, indecisive, indefinable, indefinite, indemonstrable,
     indeterminable, indeterminate, indistinct, inexact, irresolute,
     jeopardous, lax, loose, nonspecific, obscure, on thin ice,
     orderless, perilous, polysemous, precarious, random, riskful,
     risky, shadowed forth, shadowy, shapeless, skeptical, speculative,
     stochastic, sweeping, ticklish, touch-and-go, touchy, treacherous,
     tricky, unaccountable, uncaused, uncertain, unclear, unconfirmable,
     unconvinced, undefined, undestined, undetermined, undivinable,
     unexpected, unforeseeable, unforeseen, unhealthy, unlooked-for,
     unpersuaded, unplain, unpredictable, unprovable, unsound,
     unspecified, unsure, unverifiable, vague, variable, veiled,
     venturesome, venturous, wavering, whimsical, wicked, wildcat