Antonyms for misfortune
mɪsˈfɔr tʃənmis·for·tune

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1. misfortune

   Misfortune is adverse fortune or any instance thereof, any untoward event, usually of lingering character or consequences, and such as the sufferer is not deemed directly responsible for; as, he had the misfortune to be born blind. Any considerable disappointment, failure, or misfortune, as regards outward circumstances, as loss of fortune, position, and the like, when long continued or attended with enduring consequences, constitutes adversity. For the loss of friends by death we commonly use affliction or bereavement. Calamity and disaster are used of sudden and severe misfortunes, often overwhelming; ill fortune and ill luck, of lighter troubles and failures. We speak of the misery of the poor, the hardships of the soldier. Affliction, chastening, trial, and tribulation have all an especially religious bearing, suggesting some disciplinary purpose of God with beneficent design. Affliction may be keen and bitter, but brief; tribulation is long and wearing. We speak of an affliction, but rarely of a tribulation, since tribulation is viewed as a continuous process, which may endure for years or for a lifetime; but we speak of our daily trials. Compare CATASTROPHE.

   Antonyms:
   blessing, boon, comfort, consolation, good fortune, good luck, gratification, happiness, joy, pleasure, prosperity, relief, success, triumph

   Synonyms:
   adversity, affliction, bereavement, blow, calamity, chastening, chastisement, disappointment, disaster, distress, failure, hardship, harm, ill, ill fortune, ill luck, misadventure, mischance, misery, mishap, reverse, ruin, sorrow, stroke, trial, tribulation, trouble, visitation

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1. • Trouble

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. misfortune, bad lucknoun

   unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event

   Antonyms:
   good fortune, good luck, luckiness

   Synonyms:
   mishap, tough luck, ill luck, mischance, bad luck

2. misfortune, bad luck, tough luck, ill lucknoun

   an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes

   Antonyms:
   good fortune, luckiness, good luck

   Synonyms:
   mishap, tough luck, ill luck, mischance, bad luck

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. misfortunenoun

   Synonyms:
   disaster, calamity, frustration, mischance, reverse, affliction, mishap, bad luck

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:4.0 / 1 vote

1. fluke

   fluke is fortune so the antonym would be misfortune

   a fluke is a lucky or improbable occurrence, with the implication that the occurrence could not be repeated.

   Submitted by rinat on November 1, 2015  

How to use misfortune in a sentence?

1. La Rochefoucauld:

   A man convinced of his own merit will accept misfortune as an honor, for thus can he persuade others, as well as himself, that he is a worthy target for the arrows of fate.

2. Pia Fajelagutan:

   Before you laugh at someone's misfortune, have a moment to walk in their shoes. Now, you've LOL-ed and you have their shoes.

3. Anthony Trollope:

   Success is the necessary misfortune of life, but it is only to the very unfortunate that it comes early.

4. Plato:

   Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

5. Murtaza Jafferjee:

   30 % is misfortune. 70 % is mismanagement.

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