English-Thai Dictionary

mischance

N โชคร้าย  เหตุร้าย  mishap misadventure chok-rai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MISCHANCE

n.Ill luck; ill fortune; misfortune; mishap; misadventure. It is a man's unhappiness, his mischance or calamity, but not his fault.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

MISCHANCE

Mis *chance ", n. Etym: [OE. meschance, OF. mescheance.]

 

Defn: Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap. Chaucer. Never come mischance between us twain. Shak.

 

Syn. -- Calamity; misfortune; misadventure; mishap; infelicity; disaster. See Calamity.

 

MISCHANCE

MISCHANCE Mis *chance ", v. i.

 

Defn: To happen by mischance. Spenser.

 

MISCHANCEFUL

MISCHANCEFUL Mis *chance "ful, a.

 

Defn: Unlucky. R. Browning.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

mischance

mis chance |misˈCHans mɪsˈtʃæns | ▶noun bad luck: by pure mischance, the secret was revealed. • an unlucky occurrence: innumerable mischances might ruin the enterprise. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French mescheance, from the verb mescheoir, from mes- ‘adversely ’ + cheoir ‘befall. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

mischance

mis |chance |mɪsˈtʃɑːns | ▶noun [ mass noun ] bad luck: by pure mischance the secret was revealed. • [ count noun ] an unlucky occurrence: innumerable mischances might ruin the enterprise. ORIGIN Middle English: from Old French mescheance, from the verb mescheoir, from mes- ‘adversely ’ + cheoir ‘befall ’.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

mischance

mischance noun we lost it by mischance | a life full of mischances: accident, misfortune, mishap, misadventure, unfortunate incident, setback, failure, disaster, tragedy, calamity, catastrophe, contretemps, reversal, upset, blow, debacle; bad luck, ill fortune. ANTONYMS good fortune.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

mischance

m ì s ch á nce 名詞 U C ｟かたく ｠不幸, 災難 ▸ by mischance 不幸にも .