Usually means: Resulting in or marked by misfortune.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word Unfortunate:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. unfortunate: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unfortunate: Merriam-Webster
  3. unfortunate: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unfortunate: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unfortunate: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unfortunate: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unfortunate, unfortunate: Wordnik
  8. unfortunate: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unfortunate: Wiktionary
  10. unfortunate: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unfortunate: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unfortunate: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unfortunate: Dictionary.com
  14. unfortunate (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. unfortunate: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Unfortunate: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. unfortunate: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. unfortunate: Rhymezone
  19. unfortunate: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. unfortunate: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. unfortunate: FreeDictionary.org
  22. unfortunate: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. unfortunate: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. unfortunate: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unfortunate: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. unfortunate: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. unfortunate: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See unfortunates as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unfortunate)

▸ adjective:  Not favored by fortune.
▸ adjective:  Marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
▸ noun:  An unlucky person; one who has fallen into bad circumstances.
▸ noun:  (archaic, euphemistic) A prostitute.

Similar:
ill-starred, unlucky, hapless, ill-fated, infelicitous, misfortunate, ill-omened, regrettable, miserable, pitiful, more...

Opposite:
fortunate, lucky, blessed, favorable, auspicious

Types:
unlucky, untimely, tragic, disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, more...

Phrases:
unfortunate person, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Poor Unfortunate Souls, Piero the Unfortunate, more...

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Similar:
ill-starred, unlucky, hapless, ill-fated, infelicitous, misfortunate, ill-omened, regrettable, miserable, pitiful, more...

Opposite:
fortunate, lucky, blessed, favorable, auspicious

Types:
unlucky, untimely, tragic, disastrous, calamitous, catastrophic, more...

Phrases:
unfortunate person, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events, Poor Unfortunate Souls, Piero the Unfortunate, The Unfortunate Rake, The Unfortunate Traveller, more...

Colors:
    gray,     black,     brown,     dark green,     olive, more...



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