About The Word Unfortunate
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Unfortunate
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What's The Definition Of Unfortunate?
[n] a person who suffers misfortune
[adj] not auspicious; boding ill [adj] unsuitable or regrettable; "an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech" [adj] not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" Synonyms | Synonyms for Unfortunate: abject | black | calamitous | castaway | disastrous | dispossessed | doomed | fatal | fateful | hapless | homeless | ill-fated | ill-omened | ill-starred | inauspicious | infelicitous | miserable | misfortunate | pathetic | piteous | pitiable | pitiful | poor | regrettable | roofless | shipwrecked | too bad | unfortunate person | unhappy | unlucky | unpromising | wretched Related Terms | Find terms related to Unfortunate: See Also | abandoned person | amputee | captive | castaway | choker | crier | cripple | desperate | diseased person | failure | griever | have-not | homeless | homeless person | human | individual | Ishmael | jinx | Job | jonah | lamenter | languisher | loser | luckless | mortal | mourner | nonstarter | nympholept | outcast | pariah | person | poor person | prisoner | sick person | somebody | someone | sorrower | soul | subsister | sufferer | survivor | underprivileged | unsuccessful | unsuccessful person | victim | weeper Unfortunate In Webster's Dictionary \Un*for"tu*nate\, a.
Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky;
attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate
adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander;
unfortunate business. -- n. An unfortunate person. --Hood. --
{Un*for"tu*nate*ly}, adv. -- {Un*for"tu*nate*ness}, n.
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