disadventurous

English

Etymology

From disadventure +‎ -ous. Compare Portuguese desaventurado and Spanish desventurado

Adjective

disadventurous (comparative more disadventurous, superlative most disadventurous)

1. (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 […]