'Misalliance' definitions:
Definition of 'misalliance'
(from WordNet)
noun
An unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage)
Definition of 'Misalliance'
From: GCIDE
- Misalliance \Mis`al*li"ance\, n. [F. m['e]salliance.] A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance. [1913 Webster]
- A Leigh had made a misalliance, and blushed A Howard should know it. --Mrs. Browning. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'misalliance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a world-without-end bargain,
- abnormality,
- alliance,
- anomaly,
- bed,
- bond of matrimony,
- bridebed,
- cohabitation,
- conjugal bond,
- conjugal knot,
- coverture,
- holy matrimony,
- holy wedlock,
- husbandhood,
- ill-assorted marriage,
- impropriety,
- inadmissibility,
- inapplicability,
- inappositeness,
- inappropriateness,
- inaptitude,
- inaptness,
- infelicity,
- intermarriage,
- interracial marriage,
- invalid linking,
- irrelevance,
- irrelevancy,
- maladjustment,
- marriage,
- marriage bed,
- marriage sacrament,
- match,
- matrimonial union,
- matrimony,
- mesalliance,
- misapplicability,
- misapplication,
- miscegenation,
- misconnection,
- misjoinder,
- misjoining,
- mismatch,
- misreference,
- misrelation,
- mixed marriage,
- nuptial bond,
- sacrament of matrimony,
- spousehood,
- uncongeniality,
- unfitness,
- union,
- unsuitability,
- wedded bliss,
- wedded state,
- weddedness,
- wedding knot,
- wedlock,
- wifehood