Misfortune

5 definitions found

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

  Misfortune \Mis*for"tune\, n.
     Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster;
     mishap; mischance.
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           Consider why the change was wrought,


           You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. --Addison.
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     Syn: Calamity; mishap; mischance; misadventure; ill; harm;
          disaster. See {Calamity}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Misfortune \Mis*for"tune\, v. i.
     To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail.
     [Obs.] --Stow.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  misfortune
       n 1: unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an
            unfortunate event [syn: {bad luck}]
       2: an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes
          [syn: {bad luck}, {tough luck}, {ill luck}] [ant: {good
          fortune}, {good fortune}]

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

  39 Moby Thesaurus words for "misfortune":
     accident, adversity, bad luck, bad news, blow, calamity, casualty,
     cataclysm, catastrophe, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash,
     cross, disaster, dole, grief, hard luck, ill fortune, ill hap,
     ill luck, infelicity, loss, misadventure, mischance, mishap,
     nasty blow, pileup, reverse, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup,
     staggering blow, tragedy, trial, tribulation, visitation, wreck
  
  

From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:

  MISFORTUNE, n.  The kind of fortune that never misses.