misadventure

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an unlucky accident or mishap, often caused without deliberate wrongdoing

   The coroner concluded that the climber had died by misadventure.

From Middle English misaventure, through Old French mesaventure, formed from the negative or unfavorable prefix mis- + adventure. Adventure itself once meant an event that happened by chance, so misadventure literally denoted an unfortunate chance occurrence.

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