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mischancenoun a chance and usually sudden event bringing loss or injurythe smallest mischance could spell disaster for our plan accident, casualty, mishap calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, cropper, deathblow, disaster, tragedybummer, knock, misadventure, misfortunecollision, crack-up, crash, smashup, wreck boon, break, fluke, godsend, miracle, strike, windfallfortune, luck, serendipity bad luck or an example of thisby mischance she took a wrong turn and became hopelessly lost in the city adversity, ill, knock, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, tragedy calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disasteraffliction, hardship, trial, tribulation, woedistress, misery, suffering, unhappinessdefeat, failure, fizzle, nonsuccesscurse, evil, sorrow, troubleaccident, casualtyblow, body blow, disappointment, letdown, setbackcircumstance, destiny, doom, fate, lot, portion fortune, luck, serendipity break, chance, fluke, godsend, hit, opportunity, strike, stroke, windfallaccomplishment, achievement, success misfortune, mischance, adversity, mishap mean adverse fortune or an instance of this.misfortune may apply to either the incident or conjunction of events that is the cause of an unhappy change of fortune or to the ensuing state of distress.never lost hope even in the depths of misfortune mischance applies especially to a situation involving no more than slight inconvenience or minor annoyance.took the wrong road by mischance adversity applies to a state of grave or persistent misfortune.had never experienced great adversity mishap applies to an often trivial instance of bad luck.the usual mishaps of a family vacation in the 14th century |