misfortune
UK/mɪsˈfɔːtʃuːn//mɪsˈfɔɹt͡ʃən/
misfortune noun: synonym of bad luck.
Noun
misfortune (countable and uncountable, plural misfortunes)
- Synonym of bad luck.
- The worst tour I have ever had the misfortune to experience.
- Cycling's complex etiquette contains an unwritten rule that riders in contention for a race win should not be penalised for sheer misfortune.2012 July 15, Richard Williams, “Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track”, in in Guardian Unlimited
- Synonyms:
- bad luck
- An instance of bad luck, an undesirable event such as an accident.
- (obsolete)
- She had to come to terms with a number of misfortunes.
- Synonyms:
- adversity, mishap, misadventure, disadventure
- Antonyms:
- fortuity
misfortune meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
misfortune in Hindi
- an instance of bad luck, an undesirable event such as an accident
- अभाग्य abhāgya
misfortune in Tamil
- தீப்பேறு, போகூழ், பேறின்மை, இடர்ப்பாடு, இடையூறு, வாய்ப்புக் கேடு
misfortune in Marathi
- misfortune
- दुर्भाग्य durbhāgya, धक्का dhakkā
- misfortune, bad luck
- दुर्दैव durdaiv
misfortune in Urdu
- an instance of bad luck, an undesirable event such as an accident
- نحوست nahūsat
More languagesFewer languages
- misfortune in Bengali
- অকুশল okuśol, অগতি ôgôti
- misfortune in Telugu
- దురదృష్టము duradr̥ṣṭamu, గ్రహచారము grahacāramu, లత్త latta
- misfortune in Malayalam
- അനർത്ഥം anaṟtthaṁ
- misfortune in Kannada
- ದುರದೃಷ್ಟ, ದೌರ್ಭಾಗ್ಯ, ದುರ್ಘಟನೆ, ಅಳಿಪಾಲು
- misfortune in Punjabi
- ਬਦਕਿਸਮਤਤਾ
- misfortune in Gujarati
- કમનસીબી kamnasībī
- misfortune in Odia
- ଘାଟ ghāṭa
- misfortune in Sanskrit
- आपद् āpad, पीडन pīḍana
- misfortune in Tagalog
- kasawiang-palad
- misfortune in Arabic
- مُصِيبَة muṣība, شَقْوَة šaqwa
- misfortune in Vietnamese
- nạn
Examples of misfortune in a sentence
- It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.1876, Ulysses S. Grant, Annual Message:
- The snowstorm, which was the cause of their misfortune, happened in the middle of January, corresponding to our July, and in the latitude of Durham!1839, Charles Robert Darwin, “Chapter X”, in The Voyage of the Beagle:
Synonyms of misfortune
Antonyms
Forms of misfortune
| plural | misfortunes |
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Origin of misfortune
From mis- + fortune.
Words formed from misfortune
Phrases with misfortune
Questions about misfortune
- What does misfortune mean?
- Misfortune means synonym of bad luck.
- What is misfortune in Hindi?
- Misfortune in Hindi is अभाग्य (abhāgya). See Misfortune meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use misfortune in a sentence?
- It was my fortune, or misfortune, to be called to the office of Chief Executive without any previous political training.
- What part of speech is misfortune?
- Misfortune is a noun.
- How do you pronounce misfortune?
- Misfortune is pronounced /mɪsˈfɔɹt͡ʃən/ (US).
- What is the plural of misfortune?
- The plural of misfortune is misfortunes.
Words near misfortune in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: misfortune (page history and authors); misfortune (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); दुर्दैव (Marathi) (page history and authors); অকুশল (Bengali) (page history and authors); గ్రహచారము (Telugu) (page history and authors); misfortune (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); misfortune (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); કમનસીબી (Gujarati) (page history and authors); ଘାଟ (Odia) (page history and authors); आपद् (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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