Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Unfortunate; attended by misfortune or defeat.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Unprosperous; unfortunate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
unprosperous ;unfortunate
Etymologies
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disadventure + -ous
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Examples
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7 And of my doleful disadventurous dear: disadventurous > unfortunate dear > beloved (some editors gloss this as "loss, injury") 8 O heavy record of the good Redcross,
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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