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English
Etymology
un- + fortunate
Pronunciation
Adjective
unfortunate (comparative more unfortunate, superlative most unfortunate)
- Not favored by fortune.
- Synonym: unsuccessful
- Antonym: fortunate
- Marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
- Synonym: unlucky
- Antonyms: fortunate, lucky
Derived terms
Translations
not favored by fortune
- Armenian: դժբախտ (hy) (džbaxt), ձախորդ (hy) (jaxord)
- Bulgarian: нещастен (bg) (neštasten)
- Catalan: desafortunat (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 不幸 (zh) (bùxìng)
- Danish: uheldig, ulykkelig
- Dutch: onfortuinlijk (nl)
- Faroese: óskepnuligur, eydnuleysur, vanlukkuligur
- Finnish: onneton (fi), epäonninen (fi)
- French: infortuné (fr)
- Galician: desafortunado
- German: unglücklich (de), unglückselig (de)
- Greek: άμοιρος (el) (ámoiros)
- Ancient: δυστυχής (dustukhḗs), ἀτυχής (atukhḗs)
- Ido: desfortunoza (io)
- Irish: mí-ámharach, mífhortúnach
- Italian: sfortunato (it), iellato (it), sfigato (it), scalognato (it), malcapitato (it), sventurato (it), disgraziato (it)
- Japanese: 不幸 (ja) (fukō)
- Kazakh: бақытсыз (baqytsyz)
- Korean: 불행(不幸) (ko) (bulhaeng)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بێبەخت (bêbext)
- Latin: īnfēlīx
- Macedonian: не́среќен (nésreḱen)
- Malayalam: ദൗർഭാഗ്യം (dauṟbhāgyaṁ)
- Norwegian: uheldig (no)
- Occitan: desfortunat (oc), malastrugat
- Ottoman Turkish: وارون (varun)
- Polish: fatalny (pl), pechowy (pl)
- Portuguese: desafortunado, azarado (pt), infeliz (pt)
- Russian: несча́стный (ru) (nesčástnyj), несчастли́вый (ru) (nesčastlívyj), неуда́чный (ru) (neudáčnyj), неуда́чливый (ru) (neudáčlivyj)
- Spanish: desafortunado (es), desgraciado (es)
- Swedish: olycklig (sv)
- Vietnamese: đáng tiếc
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marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune
See also
Noun
unfortunate (plural unfortunates)
- An unlucky person; one who has fallen into bad circumstances.
1960 February, “Talking of Trains: Moretonhampstead - a p.s.”, in Trains Illustrated, page 73:Of those adults who used the trains every day, about half now travel daily by bus, [...] one unfortunate is reported to be walking to and from his employment.
- (archaic, euphemistic) A prostitute.
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