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Definition of "chanceful" [chance•ful]

  • Eventful: spent two chanceful months in England during the war. (adjective)
  • Archaic Casual. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "chanceful" in a sentence
  • "Venturi scolded Els for a chanceful shot that went into the water on 13 and led to a triple bogey."
  • "None the less, his brain was busy with the chanceful possibilities."
  • "Hours of all the chanceful fortunes of a soldier's life, in hill-wars and desert raids, passed in memory through his thoughts now where he was stretched; looking dreamily through the film of his smoke at the city of tents, and the reclining forms of camels, and the tall, white slowly moving shapes of the lawless marauders of the sand plains."