n.

1. 1. Bad fortune or ill luck.
   2. The condition resulting from bad fortune or ill luck: wanted to help those in misfortune.
2. A distressing occurrence: “Misfortunes are too apt to wear out Friendship” (Charlotte Charke).

noun

1. Bad fortune: adversity, haplessness, unfortunateness, unluckiness, untowardness. See luck/misfortune/chance.
2. An unexpected and usually undesirable event: accident, casualty, contretemps, misadventure, mischance, mishap. See help/harm/harmless, surprise/expect.

A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce

n.

The kind of fortune that never misses.

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Quotes:

"The unhappy derive comfort from the misfortunes of others." - Aesop

"A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can." - Jane Austen

"An accident is an inevitable occurrence due to the actions of immutable natural laws." - Ambrose Bierce

"People of genius whenever they are faced with misfortune find resources within themselves." - Brouhours

"It is wrong to think that misfortunes come from the east or from the west; they originate within one's own mind. Therefore, it is foolish to guard against misfortunes from the external world and leave the inner mind uncontrolled." - Buddha

"Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an angel's face. Every man deems that he has precisely the trials and temptations which are the hardest of all others for him to bear; but they are so, simply because they are the very ones he most needs." - Lydia M. Child

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - uheld, ulykke

Nederlands (Dutch)
ongeluk, pech, ramp

Français (French)
n. - malheur, malchance

Deutsch (German)
n. - Mißgeschick

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - δυστυχία, συμφορά, κακό

Italiano (Italian)
sfortuna

Português (Portuguese)
n. - infortúnio (m)

Русский (Russian)
несчастье, неудача

Español (Spanish)
n. - desgracia, desventura, infortunio

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - olycka, otur

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
不幸, 坏运气, 灾祸

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 不幸, 壞運氣, 災禍

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 불운, 재난

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 不幸, 不運, 逆境, 災難

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) سوء حظ‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מזל רע, צרה, תאונה, אסון‬

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