MISCHANCE meaning: Unfortunate occurrence due to luck

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mischance: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mischance: Merriam-Webster
mischance: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
mischance: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
mischance: Collins English Dictionary
mischance: Vocabulary.com
Mischance, mischance: Wordnik
mischance: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
mischance: Wiktionary
mischance: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
mischance: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
mischance: Infoplease Dictionary
Mischance, mischance: Dictionary.com
mischance: Online Etymology Dictionary
Mischance: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
mischance: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
mischance: Rhymezone
mischance: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
mischance: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
mischance: FreeDictionary.org
mischance: Mnemonic Dictionary
mischance: TheFreeDictionary.com

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mischance: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  Bad luck, misfortune.
▸ noun:  A mishap, an unlucky circumstance.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To undergo (a misfortune); to suffer (something unfortunate).

Opposite:

luck, fortune, success, serendipity

Types:

accident, disaster, calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, more...

Adjectives:

sad, such, strange, great, own, fatal, unfortunate, dire, mere, possible, pure

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