MISADVENTURE


Meaning of MISADVENTURE in English

“+ noun

Etymology: Middle English mesaventure, mesadventure, misaventure, from Old French mesaventure, from mesavenir to chance badly, happen badly (from mes- mis- (I) + avenir to chance, happen, from Latin advenire to come to), after Old French avenir : aventure adventure — more at advene , adventure

1.

a. : calamitous misfortune : disaster

a record of misadventure by shipwreck — Times Literary Supplement

especially : a piece of bad luck : mishap

his marital misadventures (his first wife was a prostitute, his second a shrew) — G.N.Ray

b. law : an accident that causes serious injury or death to a human being and that does not involve negligence, wrongful purpose, or unlawful conduct

a verdict of death by misadventure

2. : a minor and sometimes ridiculous mishap : blunder

this happy-souled and sometimes uproarious book … belongs to the domestic misadventure school — Time

his misadventures as a young immigrant in search of an unknown uncle — Wallace Markfield

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.