mishappen
UK/mɪsˈhap(ə)n/
mishappen verb: to encounter grief or misfortune.
Verb
mishappen (third-person singular simple present mishappens, present participle mishappening, simple past and past participle mishappened)
- To encounter grief or misfortune.
- To happen through misfortune.
- His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night, / Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to vnderstand / The heauie hap, which on them is alight, / Affraid, least to themselues the like mishappen might.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
- To happen ill; fare ill.
mishappen meaning in Bengali
mishappen in Bengali
- দুঃখ, দুর্ভাগ্যের সম্মুখীন হওয়া, দুর্ভাগ্যের কারণে ঘটা, খারাপ কিছু ঘটা, খারাপভাবে চলা
Forms of mishappen
| third-person singular present | mishappens |
|---|---|
| present participle | mishappening |
| past participle | mishappened |
| past | mishappened |
Origin of mishappen
From Middle English mishapnen, equivalent to mis- + happen.
Words that rhyme with mishappen
Questions about mishappen
- What does mishappen mean?
- Mishappen means to encounter grief or misfortune.
- What is mishappen in Bengali?
- Mishappen in Bengali is দুঃখ, দুর্ভাগ্যের সম্মুখীন হওয়া, দুর্ভাগ্যের কারণে ঘটা. See Mishappen meaning in Bengali.
- What part of speech is mishappen?
- Mishappen is a verb.
- How do you pronounce mishappen?
- Mishappen is pronounced /mɪsˈhap(ə)n/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of mishappen?
- The past tense of mishappen is mishappened.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: mishappen (page history and authors); mishappen (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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