Word Meanings - DISADVENTURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Misfortune; mishap. Sir W. Raleigh.

Related words: (words related to DISADVENTURE)

• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• MISFORTUNED
  Unfortunate.
• MISHAPPY
  Unhappy.
• MISFORTUNE
  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.
• MISHAP
  Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. Chaucer. Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. Shak.