circumstance

Speech parts

1. circumstance - Noun

2. circumstance - Verb

Meaning

That which attends, or relates to, or in some way affects, a fact or event; an attendant thing or state of things.

An event; a fact; a particular incident.

Condition in regard to worldly estate; state of property; situation; surroundings.

To place in a particular situation; to supply relative incidents.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

condition position event situation context setting incident occurrence state case fact element environment instance episode
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Antonyms

chimera will result design plan revolution
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Hypernyms

information environment condition ceremony ceremonial observance

Hyponyms

case event justification hinge conditions playing field

Phrases with the word

under no circumstance slaves of circumstance unforeseen circumstance in no circumstance favorable circumstance lucky circumstance

Examples

Some people resemble the honeybee and some resemble the fly. Those who resemble the fly seek to find evil in every circumstance and are preoccupied with it; they see no good anywhere. But those who resemble the honeybee only see the good in everything they see. Paisios of Mount Athos

A person should be honest by nature, not by circumstance. Marcus Aurelius

Let this circumstance of our constitution therefore be directed to this noble purpose, and then all the objections urged against it by jealous tyranny and affrighted superstition will vanish. Adam Weishaupt

I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. Henry David Thoreau

I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it. Sonia Sotomayor

Only in thought is man a God; in action and desire we are the slaves of circumstance. Bertrand Russell

Close letter words and terms

circumspectness circumsphere circumsporozoite circumstance mitigating circumstanced circumstances