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bad break
adjective as in unlucky
noun as in adversity
Strongest matches
noun as in bad luck
noun as in bum rap
noun as in haplessness
noun as in misadventure
noun as in misfortune
Strongest matches
Strong matches
noun as in misfortune/mishap
Weak matches
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad news
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casuality
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- cross
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- hard luck
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- stroke of bad luck
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unpleasantness
- visitation
- worry
noun as in unfortunateness
Weak matches
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad luck
- bad news
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- haplessness
- hard luck
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- mishap
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unluck
- unluckiness
- unpleasantness
- untowardness
- visitation
- worry
noun as in unluckiness
Weak matches
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad luck
- bad news
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- haplessness
- hard luck
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- mishap
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unfortunateness
- unluck
- unpleasantness
- untowardness
- visitation
- worry
noun as in untowardness
Weak matches
- accident
- adversity
- affliction
- annoyance
- anxiety
- bad luck
- bad news
- blow
- burden
- calamity
- casualty
- cataclysm
- catastrophe
- contretemps
- crunch
- debacle
- disadvantage
- disappointment
- discomfort
- dole
- failure
- haplessness
- hard luck
- hardship
- harm
- inconvenience
- infelicity
- loss
- misadventure
- mischance
- misery
- mishap
- nuisance
- reverse
- rotten luck
- setback
- tough luck
- tragedy
- trial
- tribulation
- trouble
- unfortunateness
- unluck
- unluckiness
- unpleasantness
- visitation
- worry
Example Sentences
So I close in saying that I might have had a bad break, but I have an awful lot to live for.
Mr. Trout develops a bad break to the off and heads under a big log.
Personally, having watched you last night, I don't believe you are guilty of any very bad break.
There had been a bad break in sugar in the morning; X. meant to have some if it came to a certain figure.
The poor professor made a bad break I suppose, grinned Neale.
The doctor says it wasn't a bad break—as if any break could be good!
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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