unfortunate

nouns

a person who suffers misfortune
unfortunate, unfortunate person

adjectives

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"
unfortunate
antonym
fortunate
is similar to
most unfortunate or miserable
"the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty"
abject
is similar to
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
"the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"
black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
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physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security
"made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern
dispossessed, homeless, roofless
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deserving or inciting pity
"a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched
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marked by or promising bad fortune
"their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons"- W.H.Prescott
doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky
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abused or oppressed by people in power
downtrodden
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marked by or producing unhappiness
"infelicitous circumstances"; "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes"- American Guide Series
infelicitous, unhappy
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deserving regret
"regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church"
regrettable, too bad
see also
having or bringing misfortune
"Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"
luckless, unlucky
see also
lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society
underprivileged
see also
not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome
unsuccessful
not auspicious; boding ill
inauspicious, unfortunate
unsuitable or regrettable
"an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech"
unfortunate
is similar to
not appropriate in application; defective
"an infelicitous remark"; "infelicitous phrasing"; "the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy"
infelicitous