Years of resistance to misfortune ended when the settlers' village was overcome by the savages and their hopes and lives came to the bitter end.
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Misfortune
//mɪsˈfɔɹt͡ʃən//
Synonyms for "misfortune" (78 found)
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Closest matches (16)
Strong matches (23)
Related words (39)
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8 entriesAntonyms
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17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
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1 entriesderived
2 entriesderived from
1 entriesis a
3 entriesrelated to
2 entriesTranslations
167 translations across 59 languages.
Albanian
1 entries- fatkeqësi noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Ancient Greek
3 entries- δυστυχία noun (bad luck)
- δυστύχημα noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- συμφορά noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Arabic
4 entries- بَلاء noun (bad luck)
- سُوءُ الحَظّ noun (bad luck)
- شَقْوَة noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- مُصِيبَة noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Belarusian
4 entries- бяда́ noun (bad luck)
- бяда́ noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- го́ра noun (bad luck)
- лі́ха noun (bad luck)
Bulgarian
4 entries- малша́нс noun (bad luck)
- неуда́ча noun (bad luck)
- неща́стие noun (bad luck)
- неща́стие noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Catalan
4 entries- desgràcia noun (bad luck)
- desgràcia noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- infortuni noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- mala sort noun (bad luck)
Central Kurdish
1 entries- لێقەومان noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎤᏲ ᎢᏳᏓᎵᏍᏓᏁᏗ noun (bad luck)
Chichewa
1 entries- tsoka noun (bad luck)
Chinese Mandarin
4 entries- 不幸 noun (bad luck)
- 不幸 noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- 壞運氣 /坏运气 noun (bad luck)
- 禍 /祸 noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Czech
3 entries- neštěstí noun (bad luck)
- pech noun (bad luck)
- smůla noun (bad luck)
Danish
2 entries- ulykke noun (bad luck)
- ulykke noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Dutch
3 entries- ongeluk noun (bad luck)
- pech noun (bad luck)
- tegenslag noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Esperanto
1 entries- malbona fortuno noun (bad luck)
Estonian
1 entries- ebaõnn noun (bad luck)
Finnish
2 entries- epäonni noun (bad luck)
- onnettomuus noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
French
3 entries- malchance noun (bad luck)
- malheur noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- mésaventure noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Georgian
3 entries- მარცხი noun (bad luck)
- უბედურება noun (bad luck)
- ფათერაკი noun (bad luck)
German
4 entries- Missgeschick noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- Mißgeschick noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- Pech noun (bad luck)
- Unfall noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Greek
4 entries- ατυχία noun (bad luck)
- ατυχία noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- δυστυχία noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- κακοτυχία noun (bad luck)
Hindi
1 entries- दुर्भाग्य noun (bad luck)
Hungarian
3 entries- balszerencse noun (bad luck)
- csapás noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- szerencsétlenség noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Indonesian
1 entries- kesialan noun (bad luck)
Ingrian
1 entries- onnettomus noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Irish
4 entries- amarrán noun (bad luck)
- amaróid noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- anachain noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- drochrath noun (bad luck)
Italian
2 entries- disgrazia noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- malasorte noun (bad luck)
Japanese
3 entries- 不幸 noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- 不運 noun (bad luck)
- 災い noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Korean
4 entries- 불운 noun (bad luck)
- 불운 noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- 불행 noun (bad luck)
- 불행 noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Latin
4 entries- adversa noun (bad luck)
- adversa noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- aerumma noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- calamitas noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Latvian
3 entries- bēda noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- nelaime noun (bad luck)
- neveiksme noun (bad luck)
Lithuanian
1 entries- nelaimė noun (bad luck)
Lun Bawang
1 entries- bakak noun (bad luck)
Macedonian
1 entries- несреќа noun (bad luck)
Malayalam
2 entries- അനർത്ഥം noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- നിർഭാഗ്യം noun (bad luck)
Māori
4 entries- aituā noun (bad luck)
- kōtua noun (bad luck)
- kōtuatanga noun (bad luck)
- maiki noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Ngazidja Comorian
1 entries- ɓaya noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Norwegian Bokmål
2 entries- ulykke noun (bad luck)
- ulykke noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Occitan
4 entries- desfortuna noun (bad luck)
- malabosena noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- malastrada noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- malastre noun (bad luck)
Old Irish
1 entries- dodcad noun (bad luck)
Persian
2 entries- بَدبَختی noun (bad luck)
- بَدشانسی noun (bad luck)
Plautdietsch
1 entries- Onjlekj noun (bad luck)
Polish
3 entries- nieszczęście noun (bad luck)
- nieszczęście noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- pech noun (bad luck)
Portuguese
4 entries- adversidade noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- azar noun (bad luck)
- desgraça noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- infortúnio noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Romanian
4 entries- ghinion noun (bad luck)
- nenorocire noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- neșansă noun (bad luck)
- pățanie noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Russian
4 entries- беда́ noun (bad luck)
- беда́ noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- го́ре noun (bad luck)
- несча́стье noun (bad luck)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- mì-àdh noun (bad luck)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- nèsreća noun (bad luck)
- нѐсрећа noun (bad luck)
Slovak
2 entries- nešťastie noun (bad luck)
- smola noun (bad luck)
Slovene
2 entries- nesreča noun (bad luck)
- smóla noun (bad luck)
Spanish
4 entries- adversidad noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- desgracia noun (bad luck)
- desgracia noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- desventura noun (bad luck)
Swedish
3 entries- olycka noun (bad luck)
- olycka noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- otur noun (bad luck)
Tagalog
1 entries- kasawiang-palad noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Tajik
1 entries- бадбахтӣ noun (bad luck)
Telugu
1 entries- దురదృష్టము noun (bad luck)
Ukrainian
4 entries- біда́ noun (bad luck)
- біда́ noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- го́ре noun (bad luck)
- ли́хо noun (bad luck)
Urdu
1 entries- نحوست noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Vietnamese
2 entries- họa noun (bad luck)
- nạn noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Volapük
1 entries- mifät noun (bad luck)
Welsh
2 entries- anap noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
- anffawd noun (an undesirable event such as an accident)
Sample sentences
15 total sentences available.
I hear he met with some kind of misfortune while he was in Europe.
Source: tatoeba (30020)
The misfortune deprived her of her reason.
Source: tatoeba (44289)
The orphan wept with grief over his misfortune.
Source: tatoeba (48148)
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