Synonyms & related words for misfortunes

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Words related to misfortunes

Explore words related to misfortunes — words associated with it, words that go with it, and its nearest matches in meaning. Related words include mischance, unluckiness, calamities, adversity, misadventure, misery, mishap, befell. Click any word to make it the center of the map and keep exploring the web of connections.

Where does misfortunes come from?

The word misfortunes breaks down into 2 roots of Germanic and Latin origin: mis-, from Germanic missi (“wrongly, badly”); and -fortun, from Latin fortuna (“luck, fortune”). Explore each root to see other English words built from the same source.