MISADVENTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does misadventure mean? 

• MISADVENTURE (noun)
  The noun MISADVENTURE has 1 sense:

1. an instance of misfortune

  Familiarity information: MISADVENTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISADVENTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An instance of misfortune

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

misadventure; mischance; mishap

Hypernyms ("misadventure" is a kind of...):

bad luck; misfortune (unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "misadventure"):

accident (an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury)

near miss (an accidental collision that is narrowly avoided)

derailment (an accident in which a train runs off its track)

ground loop (a sharp uncontrollable turn made by an airplane while moving along the ground)

puncture (loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object)

slip; trip (an accidental misstep threatening (or causing) a fall)

crash ((computer science) an event that causes a computer system to become inoperative)

 Context examples 

Despite these various misadventures, the memory of the White Mouse forty-dollar check sustained him, though he was driven more and more to hack-work.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

At last he flung down the instrument, and plunged into a detailed account of his misadventures.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

As it was, he thought that on the attendant's evidence he could give a certificate of death by misadventure in falling from bed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He had misadventures at first, hopelessly burning one pair and buying another, which expenditure again brought nearer the day on which he must put to sea.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)