Synonyms for misfortune
mɪsˈfɔr tʃənmis·for·tune

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1. misfortune

   Misfortune is adverse fortune or any instance thereof, any untoward event, usually of lingering character or consequences, and such as the sufferer is not deemed directly responsible for; as, he had the misfortune to be born blind. Any considerable disappointment, failure, or misfortune, as regards outward circumstances, as loss of fortune, position, and the like, when long continued or attended with enduring consequences, constitutes adversity. For the loss of friends by death we commonly use affliction or bereavement. Calamity and disaster are used of sudden and severe misfortunes, often overwhelming; ill fortune and ill luck, of lighter troubles and failures. We speak of the misery of the poor, the hardships of the soldier. Affliction, chastening, trial, and tribulation have all an especially religious bearing, suggesting some disciplinary purpose of God with beneficent design. Affliction may be keen and bitter, but brief; tribulation is long and wearing. We speak of an affliction, but rarely of a tribulation, since tribulation is viewed as a continuous process, which may endure for years or for a lifetime; but we speak of our daily trials. Compare CATASTROPHE.

   Synonyms:
   adversity, affliction, bereavement, blow, calamity, chastening, chastisement, disappointment, disaster, distress, failure, hardship, harm, ill, ill fortune, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misery, mishap, reverse, ruin, sorrow, stroke, trial, tribulation, trouble, visitation

   Antonyms:
   blessing, boon, comfort, consolation, good fortune, good luck, gratification, happiness, joy, pleasure, prosperity, relief, success, triumph

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1. misfortune, bad lucknoun

   unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event

   Synonyms:
   mishap, tough luck, ill luck, mischance, bad luck

   Antonyms:
   good fortune, good luck, luckiness

2. misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill lucknoun

   an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes

   Synonyms:
   mishap, tough luck, ill luck, mischance, bad luck

   Antonyms:
   good fortune, luckiness, good luck

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1. • Trouble

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1. bad news

   Submitted by anonymous on July 12, 2020  

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1. misfortunenoun

   Synonyms:
   disaster, calamity, reverse, affliction, visitation, trial, blow, stroke, adversity, distress, hardship, trouble, ill-luck, ill fortune

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1. misfortunenoun

   Synonyms:
   disaster, calamity, frustration, mischance, reverse, affliction, mishap, bad luck

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1. List of paraphrases for "misfortune":

   woe, unhappiness, misery, disgrace, accident, doom, misadventure, disaster

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How to use misfortune in a sentence?

1. Jane Austen:

   A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

2. Epictetus, Enchiridion:

   It is the action of an uninstructed person to reproach others for his own misfortune; of one entering instruction, to reproach himself; and one perfectly instructed, to reproach neither others nor himself.

3. Father Igor:

   It's about helping our brothers from China who are suffering from this scary misfortune, this destructive plague, we perform this prayer and ask God for mercy toward China and its people.

4. R. F Knight:

   All money systems not backed by actual resources has failed in the past, if we keep eating the same food and making the same political choices as we have always done, we are also doomed to inherit a legacy of failure and misfortune".

5. Erik Pevernagie:

   Sometimes life turns its back to people. A misfortune, a physical accident or a mental emergency can take them by surprise. Similar to the unexpected assault on Pearl Harbor and the Twin Towers in New York, which took a whole nation by surprise , the lives of individuals can be suddenly disrupted.