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trial, tribulation, adversity, burden, affliction: She cannot
bear the twin miseries of illness and poverty. 4 spoilsport,
damper, killjoy, dampener, Job's comforter, grouch, grump,
malcontent, pessimist, cynic, prophet of doom, Cassandra, Colloq
wet blanket, sourpuss, US party pooper, gloomy Gus, picklepuss:
How can you stand living with such a misery?
misfire v. 1 fail, abort, miscarry, go wrong, fizzle (out), fall
through, Colloq flop, come a cropper, Brit go phut, US go pfft
or phft: The plan to take over the conglomerate misfired when
the shares soared in price.
--n. 2 miscarriage, failure, fizzle, dud, Colloq abort, flop:
After two misfires, we gave up trying to buy a time-share in the
Algarve.
misfit n. oner, eccentric, individual, nonconformist, maverick, square
peg in a round hole: People regard him as one of society's
misfits and tend to steer clear.
misfortune
n. 1 bad luck, ill luck, ill fortune, hard luck, infelicity,
adversity, loss: He had the misfortune to marry the wrong
woman. 2 accident, misadventure, mishap, calamity, catastrophe,
mischance, disaster, contretemps, tragedy, blow, shock; reverse,
stroke of bad luck, Colloq bad news: With the death of his
father, then his illness, then the loss of his business, one
misfortune followed another.
misgiving n. apprehension, mistrust, worry, concern, anxiety, qualm,
scruple, disquiet, hesitation, doubt, question, uncertainty,
suspicion, unease, uneasiness, discomfort; dread, premonition,
foreboding, Colloq funny feeling: I had grave misgivings about
driving all that way on my own.
misguided adj. misled, wrong, misdirected, foolish, unreasonable,
erroneous, mistaken, misplaced, imprudent, unwise, impolitic,
ill-advised, fallacious, uncalled-for, labouring under a
misapprehension, wide of the mark, Colloq off (the mark),
barking up the wrong tree: Her helpfulness is often misguided,
ending in disaster for all concerned.
mishandle v. 1 abuse, mistreat, maltreat, ill-treat, beat (up),