1 having bad luck; caused by bad luck
SYNUNLUCKY:
He was unfortunate to lose in the final round. * It was an unfortunate accident. * The unfortunate animal was locked inside the house for a week.
OPPFORTUNATE
2 (formal) if you say that a situation is unfortunate, you wish that it had not happened or that it had happened differently
SYNREGRETTABLE:
She described the decision as 'unfortunate'. * It was unfortunate that he couldn't speak English. * You're putting me in a most unfortunate position.
3 embarrassing and/or offensive:
It was an unfortunate choice of words.
noun (literary) a person who does not have much luck, money, etc:
one of life's unfortunates
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
Where does this definition of unfortunate come from?
This entry for unfortunate is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is unfortunate a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, unfortunate is tagged as adjective.
Does unfortunate appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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