Dictionary Definition
circumstances
Noun
1 your overall circumstances or condition in life
(including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune
may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of
the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her
portion" [syn: fortune,
destiny, fate, luck, lot, portion]
2 the state (usually personal) with regard to
wealth; "each person was helped according to his
circumstances"
3 a person's financial situation (good or bad);
"he found himself in straitened circumstances"
User Contributed Dictionary
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Pronunciation
Noun
circumstances- Plural of circumstance
Extensive Definition
Circumstance or circumstances can refer to:
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
affairs, alentours, ambience, ambit, assessed valuation,
assets, assets and
liabilities, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies,
circumjacencies,
compass, concerns, condition of things,
conditions, context, current assets,
dealings, deferred
assets, doings, entourage, environing
circumstances, environment, environs, existing conditions,
fixed assets, frozen assets, full particulars, funds, gestalt, goings-on, habitat, ins and outs,
intangible assets, intangibles, life, liquid assets, march of
events, material assets, matters, means, milieu, neighborhood, net assets,
net worth, outposts,
outskirts, perimeter, periphery, precincts, proceedings, purlieus, quick assets,
relations, resources, run of things, set
of conditions, situation, state of affairs,
status quo, stock,
stock-in-trade, suburbs,
surroundings,
tangible assets, tangibles, the times, the
world, total environment, total situation, vicinage, vicinity, wealth, what happens, whole
picture