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| ADJECTIVE | 1 | unfortunate | Not favored by fortune |
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| 2 | unfortunate, inauspicious | Not auspicious | |
| 3 | unfortunate | Unsuitable or regrettable | |
| NOUN | 1 | unfortunate, unfortunate person | A person who suffers misfortune |
| Sounds | ahnfao'rchahnaht; ahnfao'rchuwnaht |
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| Rhymes | abbot, abut, accredit, and 364 more rhymes in aht... |
| Meaning | Not favored by fortune. Marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune. |
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| Examples | "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" |
| Contrary | fortunate |
| Similar | abject; black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful; dispossessed, homeless, roofless; hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched; doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky; downtrodden; infelicitous, unhappy; regrettable, too bad |
| See also | unlucky, luckless; underprivileged; unsuccessful |
| Adverbs | unfortunately |
| Meaning | Not auspicious. Boding ill. |
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| Synonyms | inauspicious |
| Contrary | auspicious |
| Similar | unpromising |
| Attribute of | auspiciousness, propitiousness |
| Meaning | Unsuitable or regrettable. |
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| Examples | "an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech" |
| Similar to | infelicitous |
| Meaning | A person who suffers misfortune. |
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| Synonyms | unfortunate person |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul |
| Narrower | abandoned person; amputee; choker; desperate; homeless, homeless person; Job; jonah, jinx; languisher; failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person; maroon; mourner, griever, sorrower, lamenter; nympholept; outcast, castaway, pariah, Ishmael; poor person, have-not; prisoner, captive; schlimazel, shlimazel; sick person, diseased person, sufferer; survivor, subsister; victim; weeper, crier |
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