All misadventure synonyms
mis·ad·ven·ture
M m noun misadventure
- bad luck — You can say 'Bad luck', or 'Hard luck', to someone when you want to express sympathy to them.
- woe — grievous distress, affliction, or trouble: His woe was almost beyond description.
- misfortune — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- blunder — A blunder is a stupid or careless mistake.
- reverse — opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character: an impression reverse to what was intended; in reverse sequence.
- accident — An accident happens when a vehicle hits a person, an object, or another vehicle, causing injury or damage.
- catastrophe — A catastrophe is an unexpected event that causes great suffering or damage.
- lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
- setback — Surveying. the interval by which a chain or tape exceeds the length being measured.
- mischance — a mishap or misfortune.
- failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
- calamity — A calamity is an event that causes a great deal of damage, destruction, or personal distress.
- debacle — A debacle is an event or attempt that is a complete failure.
- cataclysm — A cataclysm is an event that causes great change or harm.
- adversity — an unfortunate event or incident
- slip — to move, flow, pass, or go smoothly or easily; glide; slide: Water slips off a smooth surface.
- tragedy — a lamentable, dreadful, or fatal event or affair; calamity; disaster: stunned by the tragedy of so many deaths.
- casualty — A casualty is a person who is injured or killed in a war or in an accident.
- disaster — a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
- mishap — an unfortunate accident.
- error — A mistake.
- faux pas — a slip or blunder in etiquette, manners, or conduct; an embarrassing social blunder or indiscretion.
- bad break — misfortune, period of bad luck