Word Meanings - OPPORTUNITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Fit or convenient time; a time or place favorable for executing a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Bacon. 2. Convenience of situation; fitness. Hull,

Additional info about word: OPPORTUNITY

1. Fit or convenient time; a time or place favorable for executing a purpose; a suitable combination of conditions; suitable occasion; chance. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Bacon. 2. Convenience of situation; fitness. Hull, a town of great strength and opportunity, both to sea and land affairs. Milton. 3. Importunity; earnestness. Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- Occasion; convenience; occurrence. -- Opportunity, Occasion. An occasion is that which falls in our way, or presents itself in the course of events; an opportunity is a convenience or fitness of time, place, etc., for the doing of a thing. Hence, occasions often make opportunities. The occasion of sickness may give opportunity for reflection.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OPPORTUNITY)

• Conjuncture
• Crisis
• turning-point
• contingency
• occasion
• opportunity
• exigency
• emergency
• Field
• Ground
• scope
• province
• arena
• scene
• room
• Leisure
• Freedom
• vacation
• convenience
• ease
• quiet
• retirement
• spare time
• unoccupied time
• Occasion
• occurrence
• cause
• need
• event
• reason
• necessity
• opening
• ground
• Opening
• Aperture
• gap
• space
• commencement
• initiation
• start
• inauguration
• hole
• fissure
• chink
• beginning

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of OPPORTUNITY)

• Rouse
• excite
• disturb
• agitate
• stir
• urge
• goad

Related words: (words related to OPPORTUNITY)

• CAUSEFUL
  Having a cause.
• CONVENIENCE; CONVENIENCY
  1. The state or quality of being convenient; fitness or suitableness, as of place, time, etc.; propriety. Let's futher think of this; Weigh what convenience both of time and means May fit us to our shape. Shak. With all brief and plain conveniency,
• FIELD
  The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules , while the fess is argent . 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity
• LEISURED
  Having leisure. "The leisured classes." Gladstone.
• SCENEMAN
  The man who manages the movable scenes in a theater.
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• ROUSE
  To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances.
• GROUNDWORK
  That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden.
• FIELDING
  The act of playing as a fielder.
• FISSURE
  A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock. Cerebral fissures , the furrows or clefts by which the surface of the cerebrum is divided; esp., the furrows first formed by the infolding of the whole
• SCOPELINE
  Scopeloid.
• GROUNDEN
  p. p. of Grind. Chaucer.
• 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.
• REASONING
  1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
• AGITATE
  1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly
• STARTLINGLY
  In a startling manner.
• OCCASIONALISM
  The system of occasional causes; -- a name given to certain theories of the Cartesian school of philosophers, as to the intervention of the First Cause, by which they account for the apparent reciprocal action of the soul and the body.
• CAUSEWAYED; CAUSEYED
  Having a raised way ; paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• APERTURE
  The diameter of the exposed part of the object glass of a telescope or other optical instrument; as, a telescope of four-inch aperture. Note: The aperture of microscopes is often expressed in degrees, called also the angular aperture,
• REASONLESS
  1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
• MISGROUND
  To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall.
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• HOMEFIELD
  Afield adjacent to its owner's home. Hawthorne.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.
• METEOROSCOPE
  An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.
• PREVENTATIVE
  That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
• UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• DISQUIETTUDE
  Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp.