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1
bringing about ruin or misfortune
- an unfortunate chain of events destroyed the business
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- apocalyptic
- (also apocalyptical)
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- fluky
- (also flukey),
- fortuitous,
- fortunate,
- happy,
- lucky,
- providential
2
having, prone to, or marked by bad luck
- up to that point in her life she had been unfortunate in love
Synonyms for unfortunate
- hapless,
- hard-luck,
- ill-fated,
- ill-starred,
- jinxed,
- luckless,
- snakebit
- (or snakebitten),
- star-crossed,
- unhappy,
- unlucky
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- blessed
- (also blest),
- favored,
- gifted,
- privileged
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3
of a kind to cause great distress
- an unfortunate choice of words that would later prove to be embarrassing for the talk show host
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“Unfortunate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfortunate. Accessed 7 May. 2021.
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The first known use of unfortunate was in the 15th century
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