Other forms: misadventures
A misadventure is an unlucky accident. A slight misadventure, death by misadventure, a series of misadventures.
Death by misadventure is a formal inquest verdict in England, meaning a death caused by a deliberate act that went wrong without anybody intending harm — which is a narrower thing than an accident. In ordinary use it is light and often comic. Note that the mis- means badly.
1nounmisadventureAn unlucky accident.
“Their holiday was a series of misadventures, from lost luggage to a missed ferry.”
misadventure is a mishap.
Old French mesaventure is mes-, badly, plus aventure. Adventure comes from Latin advenire, to arrive.
Old French
mesaventure
Middle English
misaventure
English, today
misadventure
Built from
From Middle English misaventure, from Old French mesaventure, from mes- (“mis-”) + aventure (“adventure”). Equivalent to mis + adventure. Compare disadventure.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA