Mishap

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

mishap
    n 1: an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate; "if I didn't
         have bad luck I wouldn't have any luck at all" [syn: {bad
         luck}, {mischance}, {mishap}]
    2: an instance of misfortune [syn: {mishap}, {misadventure},
       {mischance}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Mishap \Mis*hap"\, n.
   Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. --Chaucer.
   [1913 Webster]

         Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. --Shak.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Mishap \Mis*hap"\, v. i.
   To happen unluckily; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] "If that me
   mishap." --Chaucer.
   [1913 Webster]

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

MISHAP

   <language> An early system on the {IBM 1130}.

   [Listed in CACM 2(5):16, May 1959].

   (2004-09-14)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

27 Moby Thesaurus words for "mishap":
      accident, adversity, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm,
      catastrophe, collision, contretemps, crack-up, crash, disaster,
      dole, grief, ill hap, misadventure, mischance, misfortune,
      nasty blow, pileup, shipwreck, shock, smash, smashup,
      staggering blow, tragedy, wreck

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