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English adjective: unfortunate | |||
| 1. | unfortunate not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune | ||
| Samples | An unfortunate turn of events. An unfortunate decision. Unfortunate investments. An unfortunate night for all concerned. | ||
| Similar | abject, black, calamitous, disastrous, dispossessed, doomed, downtrodden, fatal, fateful, hapless, homeless, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, infelicitous, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, regrettable, roofless, too bad, unhappy, unlucky, wretched | ||
| See also | luckless, underprivileged, unlucky, unsuccessful | ||
| Antonyms | fortunate | ||
| 2. | unfortunate not auspicious; boding ill | ||
| Synonyms | inauspicious | ||
| Similar | unpromising | ||
| Attribute | auspiciousness, propitiousness | ||
| Antonyms | auspicious | ||
| 3. | unfortunate unsuitable or regrettable | ||
| Samples | An unfortunate choice of words. An unfortunate speech. | ||
| Similar | infelicitous | ||
| Antonyms | felicitous | ||
English noun: unfortunate | |||
| 1. | unfortunate (person) a person who suffers misfortune | ||
| Synonyms | unfortunate person | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | abandoned person, amputee, captive, castaway, choker, crier, desperate, diseased person, failure, griever, have-not, homeless, homeless person, Ishmael, jinx, Job, jonah, lamenter, languisher, loser, maroon, mourner, nonstarter, nympholept, outcast, pariah, poor person, prisoner, schlimazel, shlimazel, sick person, sorrower, subsister, sufferer, survivor, unsuccessful person, victim, weeper | ||
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