Usually means: Adverse events causing distress or loss.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word misfortune:

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  1. misfortune: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. misfortune: Merriam-Webster
  3. misfortune: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. misfortune: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. misfortune: Collins English Dictionary
  6. misfortune: Vocabulary.com
  7. Misfortune, misfortune: Wordnik
  8. misfortune: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. misfortune: Wiktionary
  10. misfortune: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. misfortune: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. misfortune: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Misfortune, misfortune: Dictionary.com
  14. misfortune: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Misfortune (disambiguation), Misfortune (folk tale), Misfortune: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Misfortune: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. misfortune: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. misfortune: Rhymezone
  19. misfortune: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. misfortune: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. misfortune: FreeDictionary.org
  22. misfortune: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. misfortune: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misfortune: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. misfortune: Idioms

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▸ noun:  (uncountable) Bad luck.
▸ noun:  (countable) An undesirable event such as an accident.

Similar:
ill luck, bad luck, mischance, tough luck, misluck, ill-fortune, mishap, tough break, ill-luck, unchance, more...

Opposite:
fortune, luck, success, prosperity, happiness

Types:
bad luck, tragedy, calamity, disaster, catastrophe, more...

Phrases:
Little Misfortune, The Misfortune Cookie, expecting misfortune, self determination to change misfortune, pleasure at misfortune, more...

Adjectives:
great, such, own, terrible, serious, personal, real, common, national, only, sad

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Similar:
ill luck, bad luck, mischance, tough luck, misluck, ill-fortune, mishap, tough break, ill-luck, unchance, more...

Opposite:
fortune, luck, success, prosperity, happiness

Types:
bad luck, tragedy, calamity, disaster, catastrophe, more...

Phrases:
Little Misfortune, The Misfortune Cookie, expecting misfortune, self determination to change misfortune, pleasure at misfortune, opposite of misfortune, laughing at some ones misfortune, more...

Adjectives:
great, such, own, terrible, serious, personal, real, common, national, only, sad

Colors:
    black,     gray,     dark red,     brown,     dark purple, more...



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