Definition for Unfortunate:

• Having ill fortune; unsuccessful; disastrous.

Synonyms for Unfortunate:

• adj.

  •adverse (adjective)
  • distressful,
  • opposing,
  • calamitous,
  • perilous,
  • burdensome,
  • tragic,
  • disastrous,
  • hard,
  • unfriendly,
  • miserable,
  • antipathetic,
  • unpropitious,
  • troublesome,
  • woeful,
  • grievous,
  • catastrophic,
  • unfavorable,
  • detrimental,
  • adverse,
  • inauspicious,
  • difficult,
  • untoward,
  • unlucky.
  •bad (adjective)
  • troubled,
  • unhappy,
  • troubling,
  • gloomy.
  •disappointing (adjective)
  • heartbreaking.
  •evil (adjective)
  • sinister.
  •hopeless (adjective)
  • hopeless,
  • helpless,
  • irremediable.
  •inappropriate (adjective)
  • untimely.
  •inopportune (adjective)
  • mistimed,
  • inconvenient,
  • ill timed.
  •poor (adjective)
  • underprivileged.
  •ruinous (adjective)
  • ruinous,
  • tumbledown.
  •underprivileged (adjective)
  • badly off.
  •unlucky, bad (adjective)
  • ill-fated,
  • destitute,
  • unbecoming,
  • desperate,
  • doomed,
  • adverse,
  • unfavorable,
  • ruined,
  • infelicitous,
  • afflicted,
  • unsuccessful,
  • inappropriate,
  • regrettable,
  • forsaken,
  • deplorable,
  • unpropitious,
  • ruinous,
  • in a bad way,
  • burdened,
  • wretched,
  • unprosperous,
  • inopportune,
  • damaging,
  • hopeless,
  • disastrous,
  • pained,
  • broken,
  • calamitous,
  • poor,
  • unhappy,
  • shattered,
  • luckless,
  • unsuitable,
  • Star-crossed,
  • ill-starred,
  • out of luck,
  • untoward,
  • cursed,
  • jinxed,
  • troubled,
  • stricken,
  • lamentable,
  • hapless.
  •untimely (adjective)
  • too late.

• n.

  •
  • painful,
  • terrible,
  • depressing,
  • upsetting,
  • dismal.
  •
  • broken,
  • sad,
  • embarrassed,
  • shattered,
  • afflicted,
  • unsuccessful,
  • troubled,
  • humiliating,
  • luckless,
  • embarrassing,
  • guilty,
  • stricken,
  • undignified,
  • ruined,
  • pained,
  • cursed,
  • ignominious.
  •
  • impoverished,
  • toy,
  • bankrupt,
  • plaything,
  • cinderella,
  • victim,
  • target,
  • destitute,
  • stooge,
  • pawn.
  •
  • mischance,
  • Star-crossed,
  • misfortune,
  • luck.
  •
  • deplorable,
  • shameful,
  • disgraceful,
  • condemnable.
  •
  • ill-chosen,
  • inappropriate,
  • ability,
  • inept,
  • awkward.
  •
  • underdog,
  • underprivileged,
  • loser,
  • wretch,
  • rich.
  •person (noun)
  • unfortunate person.
  •sad sack (noun)
  • sad sack.
  •unfortunate (noun)
  • ill-fated,
  • ill-starred,
  • abject,
  • pathetic,
  • castaway,
  • hapless,
  • doomed,
  • unhappy,
  • roofless,
  • pitiful,
  • infelicitous,
  • dispossessed,
  • disastrous,
  • pitiable,
  • misfortunate,
  • regrettable,
  • too bad,
  • shipwrecked,
  • fatal,
  • unlucky,
  • miserable,
  • inauspicious,
  • calamitous,
  • ill-omened,
  • unpromising,
  • piteous,
  • poor,
  • wretched,
  • fateful,
  • homeless,
  • black,
  • unfortunate person.

• v.

  •defeated (verb)
  • unsuccessful.
  •depressing (verb)
  • dismal.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • ignominious,
  • wretch,
  • condemnable,
  • mischance,
  • damned,
  • Star-crossed,
  • unseemly,
  • humiliating,
  • undignified,
  • ill-chosen.
  •
  • underdog,
  • sol,
  • deplorable,
  • embarrassed,
  • misfortune,
  • sad,
  • melancholy.
  •
  • ruinous,
  • painful,
  • bad,
  • disgraceful,
  • inept,
  • loser,
  • embarrassing.
  •
  • guilty,
  • shameful,
  • inappropriate,
  • awkward.
  •
  • curse.
  •cursed
  • luckless.
  •discouraging
  • hopeless.
  •inadequate
  • unsuitable.
  •injurious
  • harmful.
  •miserable
  • unblessed.
  •unfavorable
  • tough.
  •unseasonable
  • untimely.
  •unwelcome
  • terrible.
  •Other relevant words:
  • homeless person,
  • acutely,
  • unfortunately,
  • abominably,
  • infernally,
  • accursed,
  • awful,
  • baleful,
  • profoundly,
  • pitying,
  • amateurish,
  • evil,
  • pained,
  • timeless,
  • prisoner,
  • bankrupt,
  • worthless,
  • Lorette,
  • demimonde,
  • condemnable,
  • unusually,
  • loss,
  • pariah,
  • infelicitous,
  • broken,
  • sorely,
  • fiercely,
  • completely,
  • destitute,
  • victim,
  • intolerable,
  • heavily,
  • unspeakable,
  • frustrated,
  • Ill-boding,
  • debacle,
  • Bodeful,
  • inappropriate,
  • inopportune,
  • critically,
  • Demirep,
  • mortally,
  • embarrassed,
  • unblessed,
  • target,
  • dearly,
  • awfully,
  • disadvantageous,
  • luck,
  • greatly,
  • rich,
  • imprudent,
  • unfortunate person,
  • deficiency,
  • ill-fated,
  • Pathetical,
  • intrusive,
  • grave,
  • ill-suited,
  • distressed,
  • untimely,
  • fornicatress,
  • inefficacious,
  • Shaming,
  • Broken-hearted,
  • hardcase,
  • unadvantageous,
  • decayed,
  • horrendously,
  • Funest,
  • unsatisfactory,
  • very,
  • madly,
  • afflicted,
  • awkward,
  • bleak,
  • manque,
  • shoddy,
  • desolate,
  • in trouble,
  • Improsperous,
  • punk,
  • crestfallen,
  • doomed,
  • contrite,
  • unwholesome,
  • monstrously,
  • inept,
  • mischance,
  • futureless,
  • bitter,
  • unbecoming,
  • black,
  • lame,
  • beaten,
  • irremediable,
  • burdened,
  • cursed,
  • incompetent,
  • error,
  • unripe,
  • mournful,
  • out of time,
  • adulteress,
  • homeless,
  • scandalously,
  • Miscarried,
  • upsetting,
  • strongly,
  • dejected,
  • bitch,
  • oppressive,
  • bad,
  • convict,
  • shameful,
  • Haggish,
  • shocking,
  • somber,
  • mindless,
  • incongruous,
  • lousy,
  • pawn,
  • rueful,
  • inexperienced,
  • behindhand,
  • Quean,
  • fatal,
  • ill-considered,
  • woebegone,
  • rotten,
  • malefic,
  • funereal,
  • jinxed,
  • regrettable,
  • destructive,
  • downcast,
  • fearfully,
  • bootless,
  • Stickit,
  • crier,
  • crushing,
  • late,
  • badly,
  • downfall,
  • miss,
  • melancholy,
  • unfruitful,
  • unsturdy,
  • serious,
  • failure,
  • lowering,
  • out of place,
  • dangerously,
  • unrewarded,
  • pathetic,
  • piteous,
  • execrable,
  • sol,
  • thoroughly,
  • inadequate,
  • survivor,
  • woman,
  • piece,
  • undignified,
  • stricken,
  • il,
  • ill-omened,
  • dreadfully,
  • afflictive,
  • troubled,
  • baggage,
  • dreadful,
  • sinister,
  • prostitute,
  • too late,
  • baneful,
  • stillborn,
  • poor,
  • desperately,
  • ungracious,
  • tough,
  • foreboding,
  • beastly,
  • unsuitable,
  • luckless,
  • heartbreaking,
  • tripping,
  • defeated,
  • despicable,
  • desperate,
  • wrong,
  • captive,
  • bearer,
  • inapt,
  • gloomy,
  • lugubrious,
  • perfectly,
  • shipwrecked,
  • boding,
  • abortive,
  • terrible,
  • lamentable,
  • ill,
  • undesirable,
  • downhearted,
  • cruelly,
  • amputee,
  • curse,
  • insipid,
  • dark,
  • of evil portent,
  • sapphist,
  • mistimed,
  • sadly,
  • distressing,
  • dreary,
  • slut,
  • exceedingly,
  • Grisette,
  • wretched,
  • unseemly,
  • rude,
  • meritless,
  • uncalled-for,
  • Fortuneless,
  • joyless,
  • extremely,
  • jade,
  • misfortune,
  • damaging,
  • morose,
  • underprivileged,
  • ruthful,
  • helpless,
  • cocotte,
  • Advoutress,
  • disaster,
  • rough,
  • disturbing,
  • hard luck,
  • immensely,
  • unfit,
  • clouded,
  • too bad,
  • schlemiel,
  • gravely,
  • Unmeet,
  • unpromising,
  • inexpedient,
  • futile,
  • depressed,
  • lost,
  • castaway,
  • roofless,
  • unavailing,
  • harridan,
  • unskillful,
  • dismal,
  • breakdown,
  • appallingly,
  • severely,
  • unfitting,
  • fateful,
  • chap-fallen,
  • sorry,
  • poorly,
  • naughty,
  • totally,
  • harlot,
  • ruinous,
  • unseasonable,
  • horrifically,
  • appalling,
  • stupid,
  • hussy,
  • apocalyptic,
  • Direly,
  • contrary,
  • infinitely,
  • worrisome,
  • under a cloud,
  • wanton,
  • dingy,
  • soberly,
  • deeply,
  • terribly,
  • intensely,
  • dire,
  • Miscarrying,
  • dolorous,
  • devil,
  • Star-crossed,
  • sombre,
  • forsaken,
  • dirty,
  • at fault,
  • drab,
  • lovesick,
  • choker,
  • pitiful,
  • rig,
  • plaything,
  • Trull,
  • failing,
  • harmful,
  • shattered,
  • disagreeable,
  • in a bad way,
  • useless,
  • cinderella,
  • malapropos,
  • inefficient,
  • violently,
  • cataclysmal,
  • winless,
  • misfortunate,
  • irrelevant,
  • bankruptcy,
  • ill-advised,
  • Unhandy,
  • Successless,
  • disgraceful,
  • stranded,
  • failed,
  • inimical,
  • unsuccessful person,
  • badly off,
  • shabby,
  • glum,
  • threatening,
  • Chippy,
  • snakebit,
  • tumbledown,
  • untried,
  • anguished,
  • vastly,
  • ineffective,
  • wretchedly,
  • inadvisable,
  • fruitless,
  • abject,
  • horrible,
  • Mopsy,
  • Intempestive,
  • disheartened,
  • toughly,
  • corrupt,
  • griever,
  • unplaced,
  • troublous,
  • sorrowful,
  • strumpet,
  • dispossessed,
  • perturbing,
  • wretch,
  • outcast,
  • hopeless,
  • ominous,
  • of no effect,
  • weeper,
  • cheerless,
  • sad sack,
  • courtesan,
  • shockingly,
  • melancholic,
  • lachrymose,
  • impoverished,
  • fey,
  • reprehensible,
  • down on luck,
  • ill-starred,
  • ruined,
  • wildly,
  • unready,
  • unproductive,
  • painful,
  • impolitic,
  • tragical,
  • cloudy,
  • too soon,
  • lamenter,
  • trollop,
  • menacing,
  • hapless,
  • absolutely,
  • discouraging,
  • unsuccessful,
  • troubling,
  • defeat,
  • worrying,
  • portentous,
  • ability,
  • heartbroken,
  • vain,
  • earnestly,
  • doleful,
  • terrifically,
  • devoted,
  • unbefitting,
  • decline,
  • damning,
  • disappointment,
  • criminal,
  • graceless,
  • out of luck,
  • unluckily,
  • unprosperous,
  • hopelessly,
  • starred,
  • ineffectual,
  • foolish,
  • loser,
  • seriously,
  • remorseful,
  • disconsolate,
  • frightfully,
  • balked,
  • premature,
  • sternly,
  • whore,
  • minx,
  • sad,
  • foiled,
  • guilty,
  • Doomful,
  • utterly,
  • wench,
  • streetwalker,
  • needy,
  • Planet-struck,
  • unhappy,
  • atrociously,
  • frail,
  • embarrassing,
  • giddy,
  • unprofitable,
  • humiliating,
  • inconvenient,
  • unsuited,
  • deplorable,
  • mourner,
  • downtrodden,
  • Portending,
  • downbeat,
  • forlorn,
  • unfavourable,
  • enormously,
  • unchaste,
  • stooge,
  • damned,
  • ill timed,
  • person,
  • schlimazel,
  • ill-chosen,
  • skit,
  • regretful,
  • ignominious,
  • nonstarter,
  • fully,
  • Unblest,
  • unwise,
  • entirely,
  • fault,
  • improper,
  • hostage,
  • unpleasant,
  • depressing,
  • grief-stricken,
  • sterile,
  • pitiable,
  • undone,
  • underdog,
  • heartrending,
  • toy.

Antonyms for Unfortunate:

• adj.

  • all
    fortunate.
  • unlucky, bad
    good, fortunate, blessed, timely, hopeful, auspicious, helpful, suitable, favorable, happy, lucky, proper.
  • Other antonyms:
    cheering, privileged, fair, rewarding, blessed, comforting, satisfying, heartwarming, miraculous, gifted, gratifying, rose-colored, upbeat, pleasing, optimistic, encouraging, inspiring.

Hypernym for Unfortunate:

• n.

  • person
    ishmael, abandoned person, pariah, diseased person, outcast, weeper, poor person, failure, griever, languisher, desperate, jinx, loser, captive, mourner, choker, victim, survivor, jonah, castaway, shlimazel, nonstarter, homeless person, job, schlimazel, subsister, prisoner, sorrower, nympholept, sick person, maroon, homeless, sufferer, crier, amputee, lamenter, unsuccessful person, have-not.

Hyponym for Unfortunate:

• n.

  • person
    somebody, soul, individual, someone, mortal, person.