Dictionary Definition
unfortunate adj
1 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" [ant: fortunate]
2 not auspicious; boding ill [syn: inauspicious] [ant:
auspicious]
3 unsuitable or regrettable; "an unfortunate
choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech" n : a person who suffers
misfortune [syn: unfortunate
person]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
Adjective
- not favored by fortune
- marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune
Synonyms
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Translations
not favored by fortune
- Danish: uheldig, ulykkelig
- German: unglücklich, unglückselig
- Kurdish:
- Norwegian: uheldig
- Spanish: desafortunado
marked or accompanied by or resulting in
misfortune
- Danish: uheldig
- German: unglücklich, unglückselig
- Kurdish:
- Norwegian: uheldig
- Spanish: desafortunado
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abortive, afflictive, apocalyptic, awful, awkward, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, bootless, calamitous, catastrophic, cursed, dark, deplorable, depressed, dire, disastrous, dismal, distressing, disturbing, donsie, doomed, doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, failed, failing, fatal, fateful, foreboding, forlorn, fortuneless, fruitless, funest, futile, gloomy, graceless, grievous, hapless, hard-luck guy, hardcase, heartbreaking, ill, ill off, ill-advised,
ill-boding, ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fated, ill-omened,
ill-seasoned, ill-starred, ill-suited, ill-timed, impolitic, improper, in adverse
circumstances, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incongruous, inconvenient, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, irrelevant, lame, lamentable, late, loser, lowering, luckless, mal a propos,
malapropos, malefic, manque, menacing, miscarried, miscarrying, miserable, mistimed, of evil portent, of
no effect, off base, ominous, out of line, out of
luck, out of phase, out of place, out of time, pathetic, pitiable, planet-struck,
poor, poor unfortunate,
portending, portentous, premature, regrettable, ruinous, sad, sad sack, schlemiel, schlimazel, short of luck,
sinister, somber, star-crossed, starred, stickit, stillborn, successless, sure loser,
terrible, threatening, too late, too
soon, tragic, unbefitting, unblessed, underprivileged,
undesirable,
unfavorable,
unfit, unfitting, unhandy, unhappy, unlucky, unmeet, unprofitable, unpromising, unpropitious, unprosperous, unprovidential, unready, unripe, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuccessful, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, unwise, upsetting, useless, victim, woebegone, woeful, wretched, wrong