Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

misadventurous

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
mis-ad-ven-tur-ous
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

unfortunate; doomed

Obsolete

Etymology

From misadventure + -ous?

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

more misadventurous (comparative) most misadventurous (superlative)

Derived Forms

Questions

What does misadventurous mean?
unfortunate; doomed
Where does misadventurous come from?
From misadventure + -ous?

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