Word Meanings - CASUALTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident. Syn. -- Accident; contingency; fortuity; misfortune. (more info) 1. That which comes
Additional info about word: CASUALTY
Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion. Casualty ward, A ward in a hospital devoted to the treatment of injuries received by accident. Syn. -- Accident; contingency; fortuity; misfortune. (more info) 1. That which comes without design or without being foreseen; contingency. Losses that befall them by mere casualty. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Any injury of the body from accident; hence, death, or other misfortune, occasioned by an accident; as, an unhappy casualty. 3. pl.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CASUALTY)
- 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
- Coincidence
- concurrence
- correspondence
- contemporaneousness
- commensurateness
- harmony
- agreement
- consent
- Emergency
- Crisis
- conjunction
- pitch
- embarrassment
- strait
- necessity
- exigency
- difficulty
Related words: (words related to CASUALTY)
- PITCHSTONE
An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch. - 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. - CHANCELLERY
Chancellorship. Gower. - HAZARDIZE
A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser. - PITCHERFUL
The quantity a pitcher will hold. - CONSENTANEOUS
Consistent; agreeable; suitable; accordant to; harmonious; concurrent. A good law and consentaneous to reason. Howell. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. -- Con`sen*ta"ne*ous*ness, n. - TRIALITY
Three united; state of being three. H. Wharton. - 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. - PITCHINESS
Blackness, as of pitch; darkness. - PITCHFORK
A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like. - 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. - STRAIT
A variant of Straight. - CONCURRENCE
1. The act of concurring; a meeting or coming together; union; conjunction; combination. We have no other measure but our own ideas, with the concurence of other probable reasons, to persuade us. Locke. 2. A meeting of minds; agreement in opinion; - 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. - CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the - DISVENTURE
A disadventure. Shelton. - INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable. - PREVENTATIVE
That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive. - PRECONSENT
A previous consent. - MISFORTUNED
Unfortunate. - IMPREVENTABILITY
The state or quality of being impreventable.