Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An instance of misfortune; a mishap.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An unfortunate adventure or hap; a mischance; ill luck.
Wiktionary
- n. An accidental mishap or misfortune.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Mischance; misfortune; ill luck; unlucky accident; ill adventure.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an instance of misfortune
Etymologies
- Middle English misaventure, from Old French mesaventure (Wiktionary)
- Middle English misaventure from Old French mesaventure, from mesavenir, to result in misfortune : mes-, badly; see mis-1 + avenir, to turn out (from Latin advenīre, to come to; see advent). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“This misadventure is already serving as really funny material for your writings!”
“A 19-year-old man was fatally struck by a train in Pickering Sunday night in what police are describing as a "misadventure.”
“But men are also killed by "misadventure" - by senseless drowning, falls, and by being in the wrong place at the wrong time.”
“Therefore we removed the points gained by this type of "misadventure" - it includes a "look what you could have won" points tally.”
“A review of the resolution vote count makes it clear that the misadventure was a Republican idea; the only opposition came from 20 Democrats and 1 Independent in the Senate.”
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“What I mean by that is either accident or, well, you know, therapeutic misadventure, which is more than just an accident.”
“The only misadventure occurs when a gold chain from my wife's bracelet becomes stuck in the tray table hinge.”
“Then the player said, "It's because Player X the one that the speaker blamed for the misadventure is a Jew.”
“A reposting on Matthew In Beirut, originally from winterson.com, depicting a Chinese bootleg DVD subtitling misadventure of Star Wars 3 thanks to Robin Edgerton.”
“George W. Bush has been accused, in the words of his former anti-terrorism czar, of doing "a terrible job" of fighting terrorism-distracted by what Richard Clarke called a misadventure in Iraq and a feckless defense of the homeland.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘misadventure’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
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abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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2nd part
prelude, ample, escalate, prototype, accession, acquisition, archives, zealot, indict, verdict, intimidating, timid and 454 more...
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Situation Normal
inspired by Mistakes Were Made. Words for things going wrong in a manner particularly violent, stupid, soul-crushing, boggling, grandiose, or any combination of these qualities.
fuckup, snafu, fiasco, abortion, miscarriage, implosion, contretemps, imbroglio, brouhaha, melee, kerfuffle, mayhem and 156 more...
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mis-
wrongly; badly; unsuitably
misname, mismanage, misapply, misanthrope, miscalculate, mistake, mistook, misstep, misdirect, misfortune, misadventure, misalign and 22 more...
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Words that delight me
tepid, perfunctory, trope, benign, inordinate, bewildering, ersatz, boon, delectable, apt, scuttlebutt, sequester and 398 more...
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use•ful
palmary, glossolalia, bothum, high-proof, synesthesia, odious, autochthonous, yawp, mordacious, dynamo, dishevel, titely and 414 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abide, abject, abjure and 4874 more...
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me + student loans =
You know that feeling when you open your wallet and all you can find inside are ATM receipts?
When being a squatter is the least of your worries and that thing called dignity is shove...destitution, beggary, impecuniosity, indigence, mendicancy, poor, impoverishment, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty and 168 more...
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Words I See Primarily in Books About ...
furze, peat, turnips, Michaelmas, Candlemas, hunter's moon, harvest moon, banish, rampart, lest, ordure, market day and 74 more...
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go-come words
come, welcome, venire, advent, venue, adventitious, adventure, avenue, circumvent, contravene, convene, convenient and 87 more...
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VictoriaPL's Words
misadventure, argyle, gargoyle, harlequin, paramour, vorpal, mercurial, carpathian, serpentine, pandemonium, catharsis, miasma and 46 more...
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victoriapl an event that turned out badly; misfortune; mishap Dec 1, 2007