Word Meanings - MISCARRIAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden. 2. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior;

Additional info about word: MISCARRIAGE

1. Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden. 2. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as, the failings and miscarriages of the righteous. Rogers. 3. The act of bringing forth before the time; premature birth.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MISCARRIAGE)

• Abortion
• Failure
• miscarriage
• misadventure
• downfall
• mishap
• misproduction
• defect
• frustration
• blunder
• mess

Related words: (words related to MISCARRIAGE)

• MISHAPPEN
  To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
• BLUNDERHEAD
  A stupid, blundering fellow.
• DEFECTIONIST
  One who advocates or encourages defection.
• DEFECTUOSITY
  Great imperfection. W. Montagu.
• ABORTION
  Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. 4. Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his
• BLUNDERER
  One who is apt to blunder.
• DEFECTIBILITY
  Deficiency; imperfection. Ld. Digby. Jer. Taylor.
• DEFECTIVE
  Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
• MISCARRIAGEABLE
  Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail. Bp. Hall.
• DOWNFALLEN
  Fallen; ruined. Carew.
• BLUNDERING
  Characterized by blunders.
• DOWNFALLING
  Falling down.
• ABORTIONAL
  Pertaining to abortion; miscarrying; abortive. Carlyle.
• BLUNDERINGLY
  In a blundering manner.
• FRUSTRATION
  The act of frustrating; disappointment; defeat; as, the frustration of one's designs
• MISADVENTURED
  Unfortunate.
• DOWNFALL
  1. A sudden fall; a body of things falling. Those cataracts or downfalls aforesaid. Holland. Each downfall of a flood the mountains pour. Dryden. 2. A sudden descent from rank or state, reputation or happiness; destruction; ruin. Dire were the
• BLUNDERBUSS
  to G. büchse box, gun, E. box; or corrupted fr. D. donderbus 1. A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim. 2. A stupid, blundering fellow.
• MISCARRIAGE
  1. Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden. 2. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior;
• MISHAPPY
  Unhappy.
• INDEFECTIBLE
  Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.
• DEFAILURE
  Failure. Barrow.