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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misfortune/#m1)

2) A misfortune is an unlucky or bad event that happens to someone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misfortune/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misfortune/#x1)
- The story tells of a boy's many misfortunes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misfortune/#x2)
- It was a misfortune that the bus broke down. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misfortune/#x3)
- Don't laugh at other people's misfortune. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misfortune/#x4)
- She bore her misfortune bravely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misfortune/#x5)
- One misfortune followed another on the trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misfortune/#x6)
- Learn from the misfortunes of others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/M/misfortune/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PRO.407/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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