Synonyms for Misfortune:

• n.

  •
  • crisis,
  • quagmire,
  • battle,
  • nightmare,
  • stress,
  • worst-case scenario.
  •
  • unhappy,
  • a run of good/bad luck,
  • comedown,
  • down on your luck,
  • reversal,
  • unfortunate,
  • setback,
  • blow.
  •
  • luck.
  •accident (noun)
  • rear enders,
  • crack-ups,
  • rear ender,
  • mis fortunes,
  • fender-bender,
  • mis-fortune,
  • misfortunes,
  • stack up,
  • fenderbenders,
  • mis fortune,
  • casualty,
  • wrack up,
  • fenderbender,
  • stackup,
  • stack-ups,
  • crack ups,
  • crack-up,
  • fender-benders,
  • wrackups,
  • mis-fortunes,
  • wrack-ups,
  • stack ups,
  • fender bender,
  • stack-up,
  • crackup,
  • wrack-up,
  • stackups,
  • wrack ups,
  • crackups,
  • wrackup.
  •accident, trouble (noun)
  • disaster.
  •adversity (noun)
  • calamity,
  • burden,
  • agony,
  • trial,
  • trouble,
  • distress,
  • poorness,
  • catastrophe,
  • rainy day,
  • hardship,
  • misery,
  • peril,
  • poverty,
  • ordeal,
  • mishap,
  • infliction,
  • destitution,
  • affliction,
  • adversity,
  • torment,
  • bad luck,
  • contretemps,
  • dolor,
  • tribulation,
  • blight,
  • misadventure,
  • bane,
  • woe,
  • hard luck,
  • tragedy,
  • difficulty,
  • hard times,
  • grief.
  •affliction (noun)
  • dis order,
  • dis-ease,
  • dis eases,
  • dis ease,
  • dis-orders,
  • infirmity,
  • dis-order,
  • dis-eases,
  • dis orders.
  •bad experience (noun)
  • bummer,
  • bad-experience.
  •bad luck; failure (noun)
  • reverse.
  •bad news (noun)
  • messes,
  • in-convenience,
  • headache,
  • predicament,
  • in convenience,
  • in conveniences,
  • deep trouble,
  • head-ache,
  • bad-news,
  • deep troubles,
  • in-conveniences,
  • head ache,
  • predicaments.
  •bane (noun)
  • plague,
  • poison,
  • contagion,
  • scourge,
  • doom,
  • infection,
  • ill,
  • cancer.
  •blow (noun)
  • bolt from the blue,
  • bombshells,
  • bombshell,
  • up set.
  •bum rap (noun)
  • stroke bad luck,
  • frame-up,
  • bad charge,
  • bum-rap,
  • lousy deal,
  • rotten deal,
  • lousy deals,
  • unfair assessments,
  • frame ups,
  • bum deal,
  • unfair assessment,
  • frameups,
  • stroke of bad luck,
  • bad charges,
  • frame up,
  • frame-ups,
  • the shafts,
  • the shaft,
  • bad deal,
  • bad rap,
  • rotten deals,
  • bad raps,
  • bum deals,
  • frameup,
  • bad deals.
  •burden (noun)
  • deadweights,
  • deadweight,
  • herculean tasks,
  • ball chain,
  • weary load,
  • thorn in ones side,
  • excess baggages,
  • encumbrance,
  • thorn side,
  • thorn ones side,
  • thorn in side,
  • thorn one side,
  • weary loads,
  • thorn one's side,
  • thorn in one's side,
  • thorn in one side,
  • excess baggage.
  •calamity (noun)
  • blue ruin,
  • unholy mess,
  • visitation,
  • holy mess,
  • holy messes,
  • unholy messes,
  • blue ruins.
  •catastrophe (noun)
  • meltdown,
  • up-shots,
  • de-solations,
  • de solation,
  • de-solation,
  • up shot,
  • up-shot,
  • up shots,
  • de solations,
  • meltdowns,
  • havoc,
  • fiasco.
  •chance (noun)
  • luck out,
  • heads or tails,
  • future,
  • lottery,
  • tossup,
  • in the cards,
  • toss up,
  • way the cookie crumbles,
  • turn of the cards,
  • way cookie crumbles,
  • throw of the dice,
  • even chance,
  • peradventure.
  •death; loss (noun)
  • bereavement.
  •depressing experience (noun)
  • downer.
  •depression (noun)
  • unhappiness.
  •difficulty (noun)
  • arduousness,
  • strenuousness,
  • quandary,
  • laboriousness,
  • painfulness.
  •disappointment (noun)
  • inefficacy,
  • bringdown,
  • faux pas,
  • washout,
  • errors,
  • old one-two,
  • lemon.
  •disaster (noun)
  • bad news,
  • nuisance,
  • accident,
  • dole,
  • harm,
  • unluck,
  • mischance,
  • annoyance,
  • failure,
  • rotten luck,
  • tough luck,
  • debacle,
  • infelicity,
  • bad break,
  • inconvenience,
  • crunch,
  • cross,
  • cataclysm.
  •distress (noun)
  • dis tress,
  • ticklish spot,
  • vicissitude,
  • dis-tress,
  • dis-tresses,
  • ticklish spots,
  • dis tresses.
  •downer (noun)
  • rotten hand.
  •event (noun)
  • misfortune.
  •evil (noun)
  • infamy,
  • criminalities,
  • vileness,
  • looseness,
  • sinfulness,
  • Knaveries,
  • diabolisms,
  • Peccancy,
  • obscenity,
  • knavery,
  • diabolism,
  • criminality.
  •failing (noun)
  • failings.
  •false accusation (noun)
  • bum rap.
  •hardship (noun)
  • dis comforts,
  • dis-comforts,
  • dis comfort,
  • dis-comfort,
  • uphill battle,
  • uphill battles.
  •harm (noun)
  • deleteriousness,
  • Banefulness,
  • dis-service,
  • wear tear,
  • marrings,
  • perniciousness,
  • perniciousnesses,
  • dis service,
  • noxiousness,
  • deleteriousnesses,
  • noxiousnesses,
  • dis services,
  • banefulnesses,
  • dis-services.
  •hazard (noun)
  • hundred-to-one,
  • risky business,
  • hundred to one,
  • hundred to ones,
  • lucky hit,
  • lucky hits,
  • way ball bounces,
  • risky businesses,
  • way the ball bounce,
  • way the ball bounces,
  • way ball bounce,
  • hazard,
  • hundred-to-ones.
  •hurt (noun)
  • dis-advantages,
  • boo-boo,
  • black blues,
  • ill treatment,
  • ill treatments,
  • dis-advantage,
  • black blue,
  • sores,
  • black and blues,
  • black and blue,
  • ill-treatments,
  • illtreatment,
  • dis advantages,
  • illtreatments,
  • ill-treatment,
  • booboos,
  • Downs,
  • boo-boos,
  • dis advantage,
  • booboo.
  •ill luck (noun)
  • ill luck.
  •injury; damage (noun)
  • hurt.
  •lapse, shortcoming (noun)
  • failing.
  •liability (noun)
  • remainder,
  • minuses,
  • liabilities,
  • de bits,
  • de-bits,
  • indebtments,
  • lease,
  • Indebtment,
  • de-bit,
  • de bit.
  •millstone (noun)
  • millstone,
  • mental weight.
  •misadventure (noun)
  • mis adventures,
  • mis-adventure,
  • mis adventure,
  • mis-adventures.
  •mischief (noun)
  • roguery,
  • rascality,
  • impishness,
  • mis-conduct,
  • mis-doings,
  • waywardness,
  • mis doings,
  • roguishness,
  • mis-behaviors,
  • mis behavior,
  • mis chiefs,
  • mis doing,
  • mis-behavior,
  • mis conducts,
  • mis conduct,
  • mis behaviors,
  • waggery,
  • dirty trick,
  • devilment,
  • mis-chief,
  • mischievousness,
  • shenanigan,
  • funny business,
  • mis-conducts,
  • prankster,
  • mis chief,
  • prankishness,
  • waywardnesses,
  • mis-doing,
  • mis-chiefs,
  • Waggeries,
  • funny businesses,
  • devilments.
  •misery (noun)
  • penury,
  • sordidnesses,
  • sordidness.
  •mishap (noun)
  • rearender,
  • illfortunes,
  • ill-fortunes,
  • rearenders,
  • illfortune,
  • rear-enders,
  • rear-ender,
  • ill-fortune.
  •pain, agony (noun)
  • suffering.
  •pity (noun)
  • crying shame.
  •pressure (noun)
  • full court presses,
  • un naturalnesses,
  • full court press,
  • un naturalness,
  • un-naturalness,
  • un-naturalnesses.
  •raw deal (noun)
  • raw-deal.
  •reverse (noun)
  • re pulses,
  • re-versal,
  • conquerings,
  • re verse,
  • re-pulses,
  • re-verse,
  • re versal.
  •ruin (noun)
  • undoing.
  •scourge (noun)
  • penalty.
  •setback (noun)
  • de-lay,
  • de lays,
  • re buffs,
  • whole new ballgames,
  • about face,
  • hold ups,
  • re-buffs,
  • whole new ballgame,
  • re buff,
  • reversal fortune,
  • reversal of fortune,
  • de-lays,
  • hold-ups,
  • de lay,
  • hold-up.
  •sorrow (noun)
  • lamentings,
  • re morses,
  • grievings,
  • big troubles,
  • weepings,
  • big trouble,
  • re-morses,
  • re-morse,
  • re morse.
  •tragedy (noun)
  • bad fortunes,
  • un luckinesses,
  • bad fortune,
  • un luckiness,
  • un-luckiness,
  • un-luckinesses.
  •trial (noun)
  • severe tests,
  • trying time,
  • cross to bear,
  • trying times,
  • calvaries,
  • severe test,
  • cross bear,
  • calvary.
  •tribulation (noun)
  • hard knock,
  • wrongings.
  •trouble (noun)
  • un-rests,
  • dis contents,
  • dis-cord,
  • dis-content,
  • dis-quiets,
  • un rest,
  • dis quiets,
  • dis cords,
  • dis quiet,
  • dis-quiet,
  • dis-satisfactions,
  • hang up,
  • dis cord,
  • hangup,
  • dis-cords,
  • dis satisfaction,
  • dis-satisfaction,
  • dis-contents,
  • dis content,
  • un-rest,
  • dis satisfactions.
  •trouble, damage (noun)
  • mischief.
  •unfortunate occurrence (noun)
  • bad experience.
  •unhappiness (noun)
  • un happiness,
  • un-happiness,
  • in-felicity,
  • un happinesses,
  • un-happinesses,
  • anhedonia,
  • anhedonias,
  • in felicities,
  • Infelicities,
  • in-felicities,
  • in felicity.
  •very bad luck (noun)
  • raw deal.
  •woe (noun)
  • lamentation,
  • deplorings,
  • bemoanings,
  • be moaning,
  • be-moaning.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • luckless,
  • Star-crossed,
  • loss,
  • jinxed,
  • untowardness,
  • jinx,
  • unfortunateness,
  • haplessness,
  • Unluckiness.
  •
  • pity,
  • sol,
  • liability,
  • event,
  • vexation,
  • disappointment,
  • unlucky,
  • sorrow,
  • pressure.
  •
  • care.
  •
  • judgment.
  •bad luck
  • anxiety,
  • worry,
  • unpleasantness,
  • disadvantage,
  • discomfort.
  •injury
  • damage.

Paraphrases for Misfortune:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    luck, trouble.

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    accident, calamity, misadventure, adversity, mishap.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    distress, disgrace, suffering, hardship, affliction, grief, catastrophe, despair, plight, incident, inevitability, peril, scourge, shame.
  • Verb, past tense
    Died.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    misery, unhappiness, disaster, woe, tragedy, curse, doom, setback.

Antonyms for Misfortune:

• n.

  • disaster
    boost, win, gain, relief, accomplishment, peace, fortune, contentment, benefit, piece of luck, comfort, good fortune, success, encouragement, help, happiness, boon, miracle, favor, good luck, joy, profit, achievement, delight, ease, aid, calmness, advantage, wonder, pleasure, blessing.
  • Other antonyms:
    necessity, Ordainment, preparation, opportunity, foreordination, provision, certainty, gratification, prosperity, ordinance, break, intention, law, appointment, triumph, calculation, fate, godsend, decree, purpose, strike, serendipity, fluke, chance, consolation, plan, windfall.

Homophones for Misfortune:

• myxosporidian.

Hypernym for Misfortune:

• n.

  • event
    catastrophe, misadventure, calamity, cataclysm, hardship, knock, mishap, tragedy, pity, shame, mischance, adversity, disaster.

Hyponym for Misfortune:

• n.

  • event
    trouble.