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Definition of Mishap
Mishap

Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.

To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally.

Related Definitions:
Accident, Evil, Happen, Ill, Impersonally, Luck, Mischance, Misfortune, To, Unluckily, Used


Mishap Quotations

My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than England's hate; neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me.
Elizabeth I

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.
Joshua Slocum

Down the mine I dreamed of cricket; I bowled imaginery balls in the dark; I sent the stumps spinning and heard them rattling in the tunnels. No mishap was going to stop me from bowling in the real game, especially this one.
Harold Larwood

Mishap Translations

mishap in Hungarian is balsors, baleset
mishap in Italian is sfortuna
mishap in Spanish is adversidad


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