Mishap

5 definitions found

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

  Mishap \Mis*hap"\, n.
     Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]



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

  Mishap \Mis*hap"\, v. i.
     To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] "If that me
     mishap." --Chaucer.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mishap
       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}, {mischance}]
       2: an instance of misfortune [syn: {misadventure}, {mischance}]

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

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

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  MISHAP
       
          Early system on IBM 1103 or 1103A.  Listed in CACM 2(5):16,
          (May 1959).