misfortune

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M0335700 (mĭs-fôr′chən)n.1. a. Bad fortune or ill luck.b. The condition resulting from bad fortune or ill luck: wanted to help those in misfortune.2. A distressing occurrence: "Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship" (Charlotte Charke).

misfortune

(mɪsˈfɔːtʃən) n1. evil fortune; bad luck2. an unfortunate or disastrous event; calamity

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n. 1. adverse fortune; bad luck. 2. an instance of this. [1400–50] syn: misfortune, adversity, affliction refer to an event or circumstance that is hard to bear and beyond one's control. misfortune is any adverse occurrence or situation involving bad luck: She had the misfortune to break her leg. adversity suggests one of a series of misfortunes: Job endured many adversities but kept his faith in God. affliction suggests a misfortune that causes great suffering: Blindness is a severe affliction.

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Adversity was spreading over him like mold —Irvin S. Cobb
Bad moments, like good ones, tend to be grouped together —Edna O’Brien
Blessed as the meek who shall inherit the earth —Anon
This illustrates how a quote can be transposed into a simile.
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, we must be busy when the corn is ripe —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Disasters … rolling in the brain like pebbles —Denise Levertov
Fortune is as … brittle as glass —Publilius Syrus
Fortune is like glass: she breaks when she is brightest —Latin proverb
Fortune is like the market, where if you will bide your time, the price will fall —German proverb
A variation by Francis Bacon begins like the above and finishes as follows: “If you can stay a little, the price will fall.”
Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it’s ten to one if they hang long together —Douglas Jerrold
Fortune sits on him like a ton of shit —Irving Feldman
Good fortune, like ripe fruit, ought to be enjoyed while it is present —Epictetus
Good fortune seemed to be following me like a huge affectionate dog —John Braine
It’s a nightmare like trying to conquer the Himalayas on roller skates or swim the English Channel lashed to a cannon —T. Coraghessan Boyle
Luck is like having a rice dumpling fly into your mouth —Japanese proverb
A luckless man … the kind of man who would have gotten two complimentary tickets for the Titanic —William Mcllvanney
The actual text in Scotch author Mcllvanney’s Papers of Tony Veitch reads: “The kinnaa man woulda got two complimentary tickets for the Titanic.”
Luck shines in his face like good health —Anon
Misfortunes disappeared, as though swept away by a great flood of sunlight —Emile Zola
Misfortunes, like the owl, avoid the light —Charles Churchill
Misfortunes … passed over her like wild geese —Ellen Glasgow
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle —James Russell Lowell
The storms of adversity, like those of the ocean, rouse the faculties —Captain Frederick Marryatt
Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head —William Shakespeare
Tried to conceal his misfortune as if it were a vice —Mihail Lermontov
To wait for luck is like waiting for death —Japanese proverb

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	misfortune - unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate eventbad lucktrouble - an event causing distress or pain; "what is the trouble?"; "heart trouble"pity, shame - an unfortunate development; "it's a pity he couldn't do it"misadventure, mischance, mishap - an instance of misfortunecalamity, catastrophe, tragedy, disaster, cataclysm - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster"adversity - a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event; "a period marked by adversities"hardship - something that causes or entails suffering; "I cannot think it a hardship that more indulgence is allowed to men than to women"- James Boswell; "the many hardships of frontier life"knock - a bad experience; "the school of hard knocks"
	2.	misfortune - an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomesbad luck, ill luck, tough luckcircumstances, luck, destiny, fate, fortune, lot, portion - your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you); "whatever my fortune may be"; "deserved a better fate"; "has a happy lot"; "the luck of the Irish"; "a victim of circumstances"; "success that was her portion"weakness - the condition of being financially weak; "the weakness of the dollar against the yen"adversity, hard knocks, hardship - a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship"gutter, sewer, toilet - misfortune resulting in lost effort or money; "his career was in the gutter"; "all that work went down the sewer"; "pensions are in the toilet"hard cheese - bad luckgood fortune, good luck, luckiness - an auspicious state resulting from favorable outcomes

misfortune

noun1. (often plural) bad luck, adversity, hard luck, ill luck, infelicity, evil fortune She seemed to enjoy the misfortunes of others.2. mishap, loss, trouble, trial, blow, failure, accident, disaster, reverse, tragedy, harm, misery, setback, hardship, calamity, affliction, tribulation, whammy (informal, chiefly U.S.), misadventure, bummer (slang), mischance, stroke of bad luck, evil chance He had had his full share of misfortunes.
relief, fortune, good luckQuotations
"In the misfortune of our best friends, we always find something which is not displeasing to us" [Duc de la Rochefoucauld Réflexions ou Maximes Morales]
"misfortune: the kind of fortune which never misses" [Ambrose Bierce The Devil's Dictionary]Proverbs
"Misfortunes never come singly"

misfortune

noun1. Bad fortune:adversity, haplessness, unfortunateness, unluckiness, untowardness.2. An unexpected and usually undesirable event:accident, casualty, contretemps, misadventure, mischance, mishap.

Translations

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(misˈfoːtʃən) noun (a piece of) bad luck. I had the misfortune to break my leg.不幸

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misfortunes never come alone

Bad things, event, situations, outcomes, etc., almost always arrive in groups of two or more all at once or in quick succession. My mother died in a car crash when I was just 12, and then my father succumbed to his grief and passed away a few months later. Misfortunes never come alone, as they say. My business collapsed, my wife left me, and the bank repossessed my home, all in the space of a year. Misfortunes never come alone, it seems.See also: alone, come, misfortune, never

misfortunes never come singly

Bad things, event, situations, outcomes, etc., almost always arrive in groups of two or more all at once or in quick succession. My mother died in a car crash when I was just 12, and then my father succumbed to his grief and passed away a few months later. Misfortunes never come singly, as they say. My business collapsed, my wife left me, and the bank repossessed my home, all in the space of a year. Misfortunes never come singly, it seems.See also: come, misfortune, never

Misfortunes never come singly.

Prov. Bad things tend to happen in groups. I already told you that my wife lost her job. Well, misfortunes never come singly; our house was robbed last night.See also: come, Misfortune, never

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noun bad luck

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noun bad fortune

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noun an unexpected and usually undesirable event

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noun unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event

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noun an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes

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