Mischance

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mischance \Mis*chance"\, n. [OE. meschance, OF. mescheance.]
     Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. --Chaucer.
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           Never come mischance between us twain.   --Shak.
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     Syn: Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity;
          disaster. See {Calamity}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Mischance \Mis*chance"\, v. i.
     To happen by mischance. --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mischance
       n 1: an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate; "if I didn't
            have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all" [syn: {bad
            luck}, {mishap}]
       2: an instance of misfortune [syn: {mishap}, {misadventure}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  26 Moby Thesaurus words for "mischance":
     accident, adversity, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm,
     catastrophe, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, disaster,
     grief, ill hap, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, nasty blow,
     pileup, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow, tragedy,
     wreck