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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate;
- Example: "if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all"
[syn: bad luck, mischance, mishap]

2. an instance of misfortune;
[syn: mishap, misadventure, mischance]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mischance \Mis*chance"\, n. [OE. meschance, OF. mescheance.] Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Never come mischance between us twain. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Syn: Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Mischance \Mis*chance"\, v. i. To happen by mischance. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

mischance n 1: an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate; "if I didn't have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all" [syn: bad luck, mischance, mishap] 2: an instance of misfortune [syn: mishap, misadventure, mischance]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

26 Moby Thesaurus words for "mischance": accident, adversity, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, disaster, grief, ill hap, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, nasty blow, pileup, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow, tragedy, wreck