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Mishappen vs Misshapen - What's the difference?

mishappen | misshapen |

As a verb mishappen

is to encounter grief or misfortune.

As an adjective misshapen is

having a bad or ugly form; deformed; malformed.

mishappen

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To encounter grief or misfortune.
  • 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.
  • To happen ill; fare ill.
  • misshapen

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having a bad or ugly form; deformed; malformed.