misfortuned

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English

Etymology

From misfortune +‎ -ed.

Adjective

misfortuned (comparative more misfortuned, superlative most misfortuned)

  1. (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate
    • 1866, John Stuart Blackie, Homer and the Iliad:
      Nor spared his life, but cut the bonds that knit his life in tway, / And clave with hilted sword the neck of that misfortuned wight.