Mishappen

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /mɪsˈhap(É™)n/

Origin

From Middle English mishapnen, equivalent to - + happen.

Full definition of mishappen

Verb

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.