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- an unfortunate chain of events destroyed the business
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- apocalyptic
- (also apocalyptical)
Near Antonyms for unfortunate
- fluky
- (also flukey),
- fortuitous,
- fortunate,
- happy,
- lucky,
- providential
- 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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- an unfortunate choice of words that would later prove to be embarrassing for the talk show host
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“Unfortunate.” The Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/un-fortunate. Accessed 22 January 2020.
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The first known use of unfortunate was in the 15th century
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