Definitions for misfortune

misfortune mis·for·tune

Spelling: [mis-fawr-chuh n]
IPA: /mɪsˈfɔr tʃən/

Misfortune is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 998 anagrams from letters in misfortune (efimnorstu).

Definitions for misfortune

noun

  1. adverse fortune; bad luck.
  2. an instance of this; mischance; mishap.

Origin of misfortune

1400-50; late Middle English. See mis-1, fortune

Examples for misfortune

But religion also compels us to fight the unjust, prejudiced systems that cause and perpetuate that misfortune.

misfortune had driven them into the earth; it would be fortune to stay there.

Brother, you'll be the cause that some misfortune will happen here.

The misfortune was that this was the only thing they cared to possess.

In the case of Kudo-kai case boss Nomura, the appropriate Japanese proverb appears to be: “The mouth is the gate of misfortune.”

It was quite possible that some misfortune might have happened.

It was forbidden to be eaten, and seen as having powers that beat back “demons and sorcerers” as well as “misfortune.”

I like him all the better for his misfortune, and so I am sure will my sister.

These gentlemen, said Clausewitz in brief, had the misfortune of mistaking the accoutrements of war for its essential nature.

She rattled off countless fundraisers in the past to help individual residents struck by misfortune.

Word Value for misfortune
Scrable

15

Words with friends

18

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