unfortunate

1. Not favored by fortune;
   Marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune (synset 301053161)
   "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned"
   also:

   • luckless, unlucky - having or bringing misfortune
   • underprivileged - lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society
   • unsuccessful - not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome
   similar to:

   • abject - most unfortunate or miserable
   • black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful - (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
   • dispossessed, homeless, roofless - physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security
   • hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched - deserving or inciting pity
   • doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky - marked by or promising bad fortune
   • downtrodden - abused or oppressed by people in power
   • infelicitous, unhappy - marked by or producing unhappiness
   • regrettable, too bad - deserving regret
2. Not auspicious;
   Boding ill (synset 300178121)
   tells us about: auspiciousness, propitiousness - the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result
   similar to: unpromising - unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment
   same as: inauspicious
3. Unsuitable or regrettable (synset 301004966)
   "an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech"
   similar to: infelicitous - not appropriate in application; defective

1. A person who suffers misfortune (synset 109653829)
   is a type of: individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being
   subtypes:

   • abandoned person - someone for whom hope has been abandoned
   • amputee - someone who has had a limb removed by amputation
   • choker - an unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or agitation
   • desperate - a person who is frightened and in need of help
   • homeless, homeless person - someone unfortunate without housing
   • job - any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing
   • jinx, jonah - a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him
   • languisher - a person who languishes
   • failure, loser, nonstarter, unsuccessful person - a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently
   • maroon - a person who is stranded (as on an island)
   • griever, lamenter, mourner, sorrower - a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)
   • nympholept - a person seized by nympholepsy
   • castaway, ishmael, outcast, pariah - a person who is rejected (from society or home)
   • have-not, poor person - a person with few or no possessions
   • captive, prisoner - a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war
   • schlimazel, shlimazel - (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything
   • diseased person, sick person, sufferer - a person suffering from an illness
   • subsister, survivor - one who lives through affliction
   • victim - an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance
   • crier, weeper - a person who weeps
   same as: unfortunate person

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