misfortune

[misĀ·forĀ·tune]

On a gloomy day, you may feel compelled to list your misfortunes: a broken umbrella, a broken heart, a broken toe. Misfortune means bad luck or the state of having bad luck.

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Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.

Noun
unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event

Noun
an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes


n.
Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.

v. i.
To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail.


Misfortune

Mis*for"tune , n. Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.
Consider why the change was wrought, You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault.
Syn. -- Calamity; mishap; mischance; misadventure; ill; harm; disaster. See Calamity.

Misfortune

Mis*for"tune, v. i. To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail. [Obs.] Stow.

Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.

To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail.

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Usage Examples

The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

I gather from a lawyer that there was a rehearsal yesterday. We haven't a hope. I know the presiding judge too: I've had the misfortune to sleep with his wife. He was specially picked.

The man with the real sense of humor is the man who can put himself in the spectator's place and laugh at his own misfortune.

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Other Usage Examples

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

Knowledge is that possession that no misfortune can destroy, no authority can revoke, and no enemy can control. This makes knowledge the greatest of all freedoms.

Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one blow has blurred the painting.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

My wife, Jill, and I have an incredibly close working relationship, and an incredibly happy married one. We met through work. I was the world's worst advertising copywriter. She had the misfortune to be my account director, so from the very start she was my boss, and she still is.

Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

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