english
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noun
bad luck:
He had great misfortune.
Simple Definitions
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misfortune
verbs
suffer misfortune
• You are not the only person to have suffered misfortune in your life.
be dogged by misfortune
(= have a lot of bad luck over a period of time )
• The project seemed dogged by misfortune.
adjectives
a great misfortune
• Everything they owned was lost in the fire, which was a great misfortune.
a terrible misfortune
• At that time, being thin was considered a terrible misfortune for women.
phrases
have the misfortune to do something/of doing something
• Last year, he had the misfortune to be involved in a car crash.
have ever had the misfortune to do/of doing
(= used for emphasizing how bad something is )
• He was the most arrogant man I'd ever had the misfortune of meeting.
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noun ADJ. great | sheer VERB + MISFORTUNE be dogged by, have, suffer The expedition was dogged by misfortune. I had the misfortune to share a room with someone who snored loudly. MISFORTUNE + VERB befall sb, strike Misfortune struck before they had even left the harbour. PHRASES be sb's misfortune He is the rudest man it has ever been my misfortune to meet.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary