Crossword clues for misfortune
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misfortune \Mis*for"tune\, n. Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.
Consider why the change was wrought,
You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault.
--Addison.
Syn: Calamity; mishap; mischance; misadventure; ill; harm; disaster. See Calamity.
Misfortune \Mis*for"tune\, v. i.
To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail.
[Obs.]
--Stow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. (context uncountable English) bad luck
WordNet
n. unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event [syn: bad luck]
an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes [syn: bad luck, tough luck, ill luck] [ant: good fortune, good fortune]
Wikipedia
Misfortune is an Italian fairy tale, from Palermo, collected by Italo Calvino in his Italian Folktales. Another telling of the tale appears under the title Unfortunate in A Book of Enchantments and Curses, by Ruth Manning-Sanders.
Misfortune or Misfortunes may refer to:
- Bad luck
Misfortune, is the 2005 debut novel by Wesley Stace. The "Victorian" novel revolves around a cross-dressing heir/heiress. The book was one of the Washington Post's Books of the Year and chosen by Amazon.com as one of the Ten Best Novels of 2005. It was also nominated for the Guardian First Book Award, and shortlisted for both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the James Tiptree, Jr. Award. The author, better known as singer-songwriter John Wesley Harding, recorded the traditional ballads and folk songs in the book on the The Love Hall Tryst's 2005 album Songs of Misfortune.
Usage examples of "misfortune".
The misfortunes and tragical death of this God were an allegory relating to the Sun.
It is a curious and a mystical fact, that at the period to which I am alluding, and a very short time, only a little month, before he successfully solicited the hand of Miss Milbanke, being at Newstead, he fancied that he saw the ghost of the monk which is supposed to haunt the abbey, and to make its ominous appearance when misfortune or death impends over the master of the mansion.
His personal misfortunes will prove the anarchy of the government and the ferociousness of the times.
The merit and misfortunes of Ali and his descendants will lead me to anticipate, in this place, the series of the Saracen caliphs, a title which describes the commanders of the faithful as the vicars and successors of the apostle of God.
The overloaded appetite loathes even the honeycomb, and it is scarce a wonder that the knight, mortified and harassed with misfortunes and abasement, became something impatient of hearing his misery made, at every turn, the ground of proverbs and apothegms, however just and apposite.
Concealing, or at least attempting to conceal, from the public knowledge the misfortunes of his arms, he indulged himself in a vain confidence which deferred the remedies of the approaching evil, without deferring the evil itself.
At the period of our history, the solicitors frequently sought the judge with the request that he would appoint an agent whom they proposed to him, --a man, as they said, to whom the affairs of the bankrupt were well-known, who would know how to reconcile the interests of the whole body of creditors with those of a man honorably overtaken by misfortune.
The honorable bankrupt overtaken by misfortune is then master of the situation, and proceeds to legalize the theft he premeditated.
I have made many happy, and have never brought misfortune to any girl.
Whenever I met with honest persons expressing a curiosity to know the history of the misfortune under which I was labouring, and whenever I satisfied their curiosity, I have inspired them with friendship, and with that sympathy which was necessary to render them favourable and useful to me.
Sir Charles Lucas, that humane prince, suddenly recollecting the hard fate of his friends, paid them a tribute which none of his own unparalleled misfortunes ever extorted from him: he dissolved into a flood of tears.
Hotshot With a Hyphen was the meanest woman Staci Ellen had had the misfortune to meet in all her born days.
Hitherto you have been famous for your deeds, but henceforth you shall be a manslayer and an outlaw, and most of your deeds will turn to your own hurt and misfortune.
MILAN AND MANTUA CHAPTER XX Slight Misfortunes Compel Me to Leave Venice--My Adventures in Milan and Mantua On Low Sunday Charles paid us a visit with his lovely wife, who seemed totally indifferent to what Christine used to be.
If one microchip, by some rare misfortune, were to fail, then two others remained to accept sensory data and provide control commands.