Meaning of UNFORTUNATE
| Pronunciation: | | un'forchunit
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | 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 |
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| | Antonyms: | | auspicious, fortunate | | |
| | 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 | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Definition: | | Dreaming that you are unfortunate means a turn of good luck will come your way.
Dreaming that another is unfortunate means failure for this person. |
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