Fortune
Fortune noun - What is going to happen to someone in the time ahead.
Odds and fortune are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Odds" instead a noun "Fortune".
Nearby Words: fortunate, fortuneless, fortuned
Odds
Odds noun - A measure of how often an event will occur instead of another.
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How words are described
| good | good fortune | good odds |
| many | many fortune | many odds |
| considerable | considerable fortune | considerable odds |
| sheer | sheer fortune | sheer odds |
| Other adjectives: poor, small, massive, large, great, enormous, huge, little, bad, terrible, personal, incredible, overwhelming, greater, last, astronomical. | ||
Both words in one sentence
- The horse wins at very long odds, which presumably means the Buchmans won a small fortune, but this fact isn't even brought up.
Source: Undisclosed Funds - Also used in the "Fight Night" episode's opening sequence, where the in-ring death of a boxer is provisionally declared a murder because the fight's organizers had rigged the betting odds to ensure they'd make a fortune.
Source: Felony Murder -
Deliberately invoked in Little Myth Marker, where Skeeve bets a huge fortune on a single hand of Dragon Poker, because he doesn't have a clue how to play and figures an (incorrectly assumed) 50% chance is better than any odds he could get if he tried.
Source: Down to the Last Play
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