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# misadventure

«misadventure» in Mova's school dictionary: **A bit of bad luck or an unlucky accident, often a small one** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a misadventure, misadventures; also uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A bit of bad luck or an unlucky accident, often a small one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misadventure/#m1)

2) (law, UK) «Death by misadventure» means a death caused by an accident during a risky but legal activity. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misadventure/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories, a character's misadventures are funny or unlucky events, like Toad's misadventures with motor-cars and horses. The law sense is used in British courts.

### examples

- The book tells of Toad's many misadventures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misadventure/#x1)
- After a few misadventures, we finally found the campsite. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misadventure/#x2)
- Getting lost in the woods was quite a misadventure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misadventure/#x3)
- The holiday was full of small misadventures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misadventure/#x4)
- (law, UK) The coroner said the death was by misadventure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misadventure/#x5)
- Alice's misadventures in Wonderland kept going wrong. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misadventure/#x6)
- The Prince told him all about his misadventure, and the condition on which the Emperor had promised to spare his life. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misadventure/#x7)

### note

Mis- (badly) + adventure. Usually milder than «disaster».

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «misadventure» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misadventure/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.