mishappen

English

Etymology

From Middle English mishapnen, equivalent to mis- +‎ happen.

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /mɪsˈhap(ə)n/

Verb

mishappen (third-person singular simple present mishappens, present participle mishappening, simple past and past participle mishappened)

  1. (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
  2. (now rare) To happen through misfortune.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iii:
      His fearefull friends weare out the wofull night, / Ne dare to weepe, nor seeme to vnderstand / The heauie hap, which on them is alight, / Affraid, least to themselues the like mishappen might.
  3. (intransitive) To happen ill; fare ill.
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