English > unfortunate: 4 senses > adjective 1| 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"
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| Narrower | abject | Most unfortunate or miserable |
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| black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful | (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences |
| dispossessed, homeless, roofless | physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security |
| doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky | marked by or promising bad fortune |
| downtrodden | abused or oppressed by people in power |
| hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched | deserving or inciting pity |
| infelicitous, unhappy | marked by or producing unhappiness |
| regrettable, too bad | deserving regret |
| See also | underprivileged | lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society |
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| unlucky, luckless | Having or bringing misfortune |
| unsuccessful | not successful |
| Opposite | fortunate | Having unexpected good fortune |
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| Spanish | desafortunada, desafortunado, desgraciado |
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| Catalan | desafortunat, desgraciat, malaurat |
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| Nouns | unfortunate | a person who suffers misfortune |
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| Adverbs | unfortunately | by bad luck |
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English > unfortunate: 4 senses > noun 1, person | Meaning | A person who suffers misfortune. |
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| Synonym | unfortunate person |
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| Narrower | Job | Any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing |
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| abandoned person | someone for whom hope has been abandoned |
| amputee | someone who has had a limb removed by amputation |
| choker | An unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or agitation / agitation |
| desperate | A person who is frightened and in need of help |
| failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person | A person with a record of failing |
| homeless, homeless person | someone unfortunate without housing |
| jonah, jinx | A person believed to bring bad luck to those around him |
| languisher | A person who languishes |
| maroon | A person who is stranded (as on an island) |
| mourner, griever, sorrower, lamenter | A person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died) |
| nympholept | A person seized by nympholepsy |
| outcast, castaway, pariah, Ishmael | A person who is rejected (from society or home / home / home) |
| poor person, have-not | A person with few or no possessions |
| prisoner, captive | A person who is confined |
| schlimazel, shlimazel | (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything |
| sick person, diseased person, sufferer | A person suffering from an illness |
| survivor, subsister | One who lives through affliction |
| victim | An unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance |
| weeper, crier | A person who weeps |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul | A human being |
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| Spanish | desdichado, desgraciado, desventurado |
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| Catalan | desgraciat, desventurat, infeliç |
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| Adjectives | unfortunate | not favored by fortune |
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