Definition of misfortune

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

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Disadventure :: Disadventure (n.) Misfortune; mishap.
Unsuccess :: Unsuccess (n.) Want of success; failure; misfortune.
Infausting :: Infausting (n.) The act of making unlucky; misfortune; bad luck.
Reverse :: Reverse (a.) The act of reversing; complete change; reversal; hence, total change in circumstances or character; especially, a change from better to worse; misfortune; a check or defeat; as, the enemy met with a reverse..
Loss :: Loss (v. t.) The state of losing or having lost; the privation, defect, misfortune, harm, etc., which ensues from losing..
Disaster :: Disaster (n.) An adverse or unfortunate event, esp. a sudden and extraordinary misfortune; a calamity; a serious mishap..
Unhap :: Unhap (n.) Ill luck; misfortune.
Misfare :: Misfare (n.) Misfortune.
Misborn :: Misborn (a.) Born to misfortune.
Sad :: Sad (supperl.) Afflictive; calamitous; causing sorrow; as, a sad accident; a sad misfortune..
Recover :: Recover (v. i.) To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright..
Infortune :: Infortune (n.) Misfortune.
Compassion :: Compassion (n.) Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration..
Misfortunate :: Misfortunate (a.) Producing misfortune.
Discipline :: Discipline (n.) Severe training, corrective of faults; instruction by means of misfortune, suffering, punishment, etc..
Alloy :: Alloy (v. t.) To abate, impair, or debase by mixture; to allay; as, to alloy pleasure with misfortunes..
Forebode :: Forebode (v. t.) To be prescient of (some ill or misfortune); to have an inward conviction of, as of a calamity which is about to happen; to augur despondingly..
Equanimity :: Equanimity (n.) Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as, to bear misfortunes with equanimity..
Owing :: Owing (P. p. & a.) Had or experienced as a consequence, result, issue, etc.; ascribable; -- with to; as, misfortunes are often owing to vices; his failure was owing to speculations..
Ill :: Ill (n.) Whatever annoys or impairs happiness, or prevents success; evil of any kind; misfortune; calamity; disease; pain; as, the ills of humanity..
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