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misfortune meaning

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  • Misfortune is an Italian fairy tale, from Palermo, collected by Italo Calvino in his Italian Folktales.
  • Another telling of the tale appears under the title Unfortunate in A Book of Enchantments and Curses, by Ruth Manning-Sanders.

    Definition of misfortune in English Dictionary

  • NounPLmisfortunesPREmis-
    1. (uncountable) bad luck.
    2. More Examples
      1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
        • Whoopie Ti Yi Yo git along little dogies. It's your misfortune and none of my own.
      2. Used in the Ending of Sentence
        • Is it wrong to take pleasure in other people's misfortunes?
        • These are the same vulture funds now flying over Greece, holding unrestructured private debt and gloating at the prospects of unwarranted profits at the expense of others’ misfortune.
    • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
      1. Nouns
        • Countable nouns
          • Singularia tantum
            • Uncountable nouns
        Related Links:
        1. en misfortuned
        2. en misfortunes
        Source: Wiktionary

        Meaning of misfortune for the defined word.

        Grammatically, this word "misfortune" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum.
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