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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
"He was my cause that week. Mentally, that helped. I never got stuck thinking about why I hit it left or why I had a bad break."
“I felt like I got a bad break there in the fairway. I haven’t had to hit a shot like that in a long time, so I figured there must have been mud on the bottom of the ball. Just nice to keep the card clean.”
But there were sloppy errors and one bad break.
Biden’s second bad break was a function of the Department of Justice’s special counsel regulation and Atty.
Each week seemed to bring a new bad break.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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