Word Meanings - UNFORTUNATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander; unfortunate business. -- n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of UNFORTUNATE)

• Calamitous
• Disastrous
• illfated
• fatal
• unlucky
• hapless
• unfortunate
• inauspicious
• troublous
• illstarred
• ill-omened

Related words: (words related to UNFORTUNATE)

• FATALNESS
  , . Quality of being fatal. Johnson.
• HAPLESS
  Without hap or luck; luckless; unfortunate; unlucky; unhappy; as, hapless youth; hapless maid. Dryden.
• FATALISTIC
  Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.
• FATALITY
  1. The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control. The Stoics held a fatality, and a fixed, unalterable course of events. South. 2. The state of being fatal;
• DISASTROUS
  1. Full of unpropitious stellar influences; unpropitious; ill-boding. The moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. Milton. 2. Attended with suffering or disaster; very unfortunate; calamitous; ill-fated; as, a disastrous day; a disastrous
• FATALISM
  The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.
• CALAMITOUS
  1. Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. Ten thousands of calamitous persons. South. 2. Producing, or attended with distress and misery; making wretched; wretched; unhappy. "This sad and calamitous condition." South. "A calamitous
• TROUBLOUS
  Full of trouble; causing trouble. "In doubtful time of troublous need." Byron. A tall ship tossed in troublous seas. Spenser.
• FATALLY
  1. In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate. Bentley. 2. In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.
• FATALIST
  One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.
• ILL-OMENED
  Having unlucky omens; inauspicious. See Note under Ill, adv.
• FATAL
  1. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable. These thing are fatal and necessary. Tillotson. It was fatal to the king to fight for his money. Bacon. 2. Foreboding death or great disaster. That fatal screech owl to
• INAUSPICIOUS
  Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable. "Inauspicious stars." Shak. "Inauspicious love." Dryden. -- In`aus*pi"cious*ly, adv. -- In`aus*pi"cious*ness, n.
• HAPLESSLY
  In a hapless, unlucky manner.
• UNLUCKY
  1. Not lucky; not successful; unfortunate; ill-fated; unhappy; as, an unlucky man; an unlucky adventure; an unlucky throw of dice; an unlucky game. Note: This word is properly applied to incidents in which failure results from chance or fortuity,
• UNFORTUNATE
  Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander; unfortunate business. -- n.
• CHAPLESS
  Having no lower jaw; hence, fleshless. "Yellow, chapless skulls." Shak.