Defenition of the word unfortunate

• Defenition of the word unfortunate

  • not auspicious; boding ill
  • unsuitable or regrettable; "an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech"
  • 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"
  • a person who suffers misfortune
  • unsuitable or regrettable
  • not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune

Synonyms for the word unfortunate

• • adverse
  • awkward
  • disastrous
  • fateful
  • ill-fated
  • ill-timed
  • inauspicious
  • inopportune
  • regrettable
  • unfortunate person
  • unlucky
  • untoward

Similar words in the unfortunate

• • abject
  • black
  • calamitous
  • castaway
  • disastrous
  • dispossessed
  • doomed
  • fatal
  • fateful
  • hapless
  • homeless
  • ill-fated
  • ill-omened
  • ill-starred
  • infelicitous
  • luckless
  • miserable
  • misfortunate
  • pathetic
  • piteous
  • pitiable
  • pitiful
  • poor
  • regrettable
  • roofless
  • shipwrecked
  • too bad
  • underprivileged
  • unfortunate
  • unfortunately
  • unfortunates
  • unhappy
  • unlucky
  • unpromising
  • unsuccessful
  • wretched

Hyponyms for the word unfortunate

• • abandoned person
  • amputee
  • captive
  • castaway
  • choker
  • crier
  • cripple
  • 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

Hypernyms for the word unfortunate

• • human
  • individual
  • mortal
  • person
  • somebody
  • someone
  • soul

Antonyms for the word unfortunate

• • auspicious
  • fortunate

See other words

• • What is inadequately
  • The definition of lacking
  • The interpretation of the word too little
  • What is meant by not enough
  • The lexical meaning laughable
  • The dictionary meaning of the word derisory
  • The grammatical meaning of the word deficient
  • Meaning of the word rudest
  • Literal and figurative meaning of the word defective
  • The origin of the word flawed
  • Synonym for the word dress
  • Antonyms for the word untrue
  • Homonyms for the word incorrectness
  • Hyponyms for the word ungrammatical
  • Holonyms for the word welcoming
  • Hypernyms for the word blameworthy
  • Proverbs and sayings for the word at fault
  • Translation of the word in other languages culpable