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Word Meanings - MISCHANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak. Syn. -- Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity.

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  • MISHAPPEN
    To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
  • MISFORTUNED
    Unfortunate.
  • NEVERTHELESS
    Not the less; notwithstanding; in spite of that; yet. No chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless, afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness. Heb. xii. 11. Syn. -- However; at least; yet; still.
  • DISASTER
    1. To blast by the influence of a baleful star. Sir P. Sidney. 2. To bring harm upon; to injure. Thomson.
  • FORTUNELESS
    Luckless; also, destitute of a fortune or portion. Spenser.
  • CALAMITY
    1. Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals. Note: The word calamity was first derived from calamus when the corn could not get out of
  • TWAIN
    Two;- nearly obsolete in common discourse, but used in poetry and burlesque. "Children twain." Chaucer. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Matt. v. 41. In twain, in halves; into two parts; asunder. When old winder split
  • INFELICITY
    1. The state or quality of being infelicitous; unhappiness; misery; wretchedness; misfortune; want of suitableness or appropriateness. I. Watts. Whatever is the ignorance and infelicity of the present state, we were made wise and happy. Glanvill.
  • MISCHANCE
    Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak. Syn. -- Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity.
  • FORTUNE
    1. To make fortunate; to give either good or bad fortune to. Chaucer. 2. To provide with a fortune. Richardson. 3. To presage; to tell the fortune of. Dryden.
  • NEVERMORE
    Never again; at no time hereafter. Testament of Love. Tyndale. Where springtime of the Hesperides Begins, but endeth nevermore. Longfellow.
  • MISADVENTURED
    Unfortunate.
  • MISHAPPY
    Unhappy.
  • MISCHANCEFUL
    Unlucky. R. Browning.
  • 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.
  • BETWEEN
    betweónum; prefix be- by + a form fr. AS. twa two, akin to Goth. 1. In the space which separates; betwixt; as, New York is between Boston and Philadelphia. 2. Used in expressing motion from one body or place to another; from one to another of
  • MISHAP
    Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. Chaucer. Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. Shak.
  • NEVER
    1. Not ever; not at any time; at no time, whether past, present, or future. Shak. Death still draws nearer, never seeming near. Pope. 2. In no degree; not in the least; not. Whosoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his eyes in another man's
  • NEVERTHELATER
    Nevertheless.
  • MISADVENTURE
    Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure. Chaucer. Homicide by misadventure , homicide which occurs when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another; -- called also excusable
  • WHENEVER
    At whatever time. "Whenever that shall be." Milton.
  • UNTWAIN
    To rend in twain; to tear in two. Skelton.
  • ATWAIN
    In twain; asunder. "Cuts atwain the knots." Tennyson.
  • WHEEL OF FORTUNE
    A gambling or lottery device consisting of a wheel which is spun horizontally, articles or sums to which certain marks on its circumference point when it stops being distributed according to varying rules.
  • GO-BETWEEN
    An intermediate agent; a broker; a procurer; -- usually in a disparaging sense. Shak.
  • BEFORTUNE
    To befall. I wish all good befortune you. Shak.
  • MINEVER
    See MINIVER

 

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