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disadventurous

disadventurous adjective: unfortunate; calamitous.

Adjective

disadventurous (comparative more disadventurous, superlative most disadventurous)

  1. (obsolete) Unfortunate; calamitous.
    • when he according did repaire, / An hard mishap and disaventrous case / Him chaunst […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of disadventurous

comparativemore disadventurous
superlativemost disadventurous

Origin of disadventurous

From disadventure + -ous. Compare Portuguese desaventurado and Spanish desventurado.

Questions about disadventurous

What does disadventurous mean?
Disadventurous means unfortunate; calamitous.
What part of speech is disadventurous?
Disadventurous is an adjective.

Words near disadventurous in the dictionary

  1. disadvantaging
  2. disadvauntage
  3. disadvauntages
  4. disadventure
  5. disadventures
  6. disadventurous
  7. disadvise
  8. disadvised
  9. disadvises
  10. disadvising
  11. disaffect

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