'circumstances' definitions:
Definition of 'circumstances'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, circumstances, portion]
noun
A person's financial situation (good or bad); "he found himself in straitened circumstances"
Synonyms of 'circumstances'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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