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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Misfortune \Mis*for"tune\, noun Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.
Consider why the change was wrought, You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault. --Addison.
Syn: Calamity; mishap; mischance; misadventure; ill; harm; disaster. See {Calamity}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Misfortune \Mis*for"tune\, verb (used without an object) To happen unluckily or unfortunately; to miscarry; to fail. [Obs.] --Stow.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
misfortune
noun
1: unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event [syn: {bad luck}]
2: an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes [syn: {bad luck}, {tough luck}, {ill luck}] [ant: {good fortune}, {good fortune}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
39 Moby Thesaurus words for "misfortune": accident, adversity, bad luck, bad news, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, cross, disaster, dole, grief, hard luck, ill fortune, ill hap, ill luck, infelicity, loss, misadventure, mischance, mishap, nasty blow, pileup, reverse, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup, staggering blow, tragedy, trial, tribulation, visitation, wreck
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
MISFORTUNE, noun The kind of fortune that never misses.
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