Meaning of BY CHANCE

WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[adv]  without advance planning; "they met accidentally" [adv]  in an incidental manner; "these magnificent achievements were only incidentally influenced by Oriental models" [adv]  by accident; "betrayed by a word haply overheard" [adv]  (archaic) through chance, "To sleep, perchance to dream.."
	Synonyms:		accidentally, by luck, circumstantially, haply, incidentally, perchance, unexpectedly
	Antonyms:		advisedly, by choice, by design, deliberately, designedly, intentionally, on purpose, purposely
Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		accidentally, as it chanced, at haphazard, at intervals, at random, by a fluke, by accident, by fits, by good fortune, by hazard, by snatches, capriciously, carelessly, casually, desultorily, erratically, fitfully, for some reason, fortuitously, haphazardly, hit or miss, in snatches, in some way, in spots, incidentally, indiscriminately, irregularly, perchance, promiscuously, randomly, sloppily, somehow, somehow or other, spasmodically, sporadically, unmethodically, unpredictably, unsystematically