misfortune

«misfortune» in Mova's school dictionary: bad luck — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a misfortune, misfortunes; also uncountable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Misfortune is bad luck. tree →

2) A misfortune is an unlucky or bad event that happens to someone. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories: characters suffer misfortune and then things improve. In formal speech: "I had the misfortune to break my leg." Phrases: have the misfortune to, suffer misfortune, a series of misfortunes.

examples

• The farmer had the misfortune of losing his crops in a flood. tree →
• The story tells of a boy's many misfortunes. tree →
• It was a misfortune that the bus broke down. tree →
• Don't laugh at other people's misfortune. tree →
• She bore her misfortune bravely. tree →
• One misfortune followed another on the trip. tree →
• Learn from the misfortunes of others. tree →

note

Opposite: fortune, good luck. "Mis-" means bad or wrong. Formal word; in everyday talk say "bad luck". Countable for single events, uncountable for bad luck in general.

In the corpora

• The wicked is thrust down in his misfortune; but the righteous, even when he is brought to death, hath hope.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «misfortune» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.