different between mishap vs misery

English

Etymology

mis- +? hap

Pronunciation

• (noun) IPA^(key): /?m?shæp/
• (verb) IPA^(key): /m?s?hæp/

Noun

mishap (plural mishaps)

1. An accident, mistake, or problem.

   Since the mishap with the banana peel, he watches his step.

   • He had come straight up without mishap or swerving off his course, and his shut teeth unlocked.

2. Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     Rome’s readiest champions, repose you here in rest,

     Secure from worldly chances and mishaps!

Translations

Verb

mishap (third-person singular simple present mishaps, present participle mishapping, simple past and past participle mishapped)

1. (archaic) To happen through misfortune; to mishappen.

See Also

• Thesaurus:luck
• Thesaurus:lucky

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French miserie (modern: misère), from Latin miseria, from miser. Doublet of misère.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?z(?)??/
• (General American) enPR: m?z??-r?, m?z?r?, IPA^(key): /?m?z(?)?i/
• Hyphenation: mis?ery

Noun

misery (countable and uncountable, plural miseries)

1. Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
2. (US and Britain, dialects) A bodily ache or pain.
   • 1868, John Vestal Hadley, Seven Months a Prisoner, page 15:

     [...] and I had a misery in my left breast and shoulder. I was hurt, but knew not how or how much.

3. Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
4. (Extreme) poverty.
5. (archaic) greed; avarice.

Synonyms

• see Thesaurus:greed

Derived terms

• put out of one's misery

Related terms

• commiserate
• miser
• miserable

Translations

Anagrams

• Myries