disadventurous
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From disadventure + -ous. Compare Portuguese desaventurado and Spanish desventurado
Adjective[edit]
disadventurous (comparative more disadventurous, superlative most disadventurous)
- (obsolete) Unfortunate; calamitous.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- when he according did repaire, / An hard mishap and disaventrous case / Him chaunst […]