[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

unfortunate \unfor"tunate\, a.
   not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky;
   attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate
   adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander;
   unfortunate business. -- n. an unfortunate person. --hood.
   1913 webster -- unfor"tunately, adv. --
   unfor"tunateness, n.
   1913 webster
see also:
unfor"tunately unfor"tunateness 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

unfortunate
     adj 1: not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or
            resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of
            events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate
            investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned"
            ant: fortunate
     2: not auspicious; boding ill syn: inauspicious ant: auspicious
     3: unsuitable or regrettable; "an unfortunate choice of words";
        "an unfortunate speech"
     n : a person who suffers misfortune syn: unfortunate person
see also:
fortunate inauspicious auspicious unfortunate person 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

162 moby thesaurus words for "unfortunate":
   abortive, afflictive, apocalyptic, awful, awkward, bad, badly off,
   baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, bootless, calamitous,
   catastrophic, cursed, dark, deplorable, depressed, dire,
   disastrous, dismal, distressing, disturbing, donsie, doomed,
   doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, failed, failing, fatal,
   fateful, foreboding, forlorn, fortuneless, fruitless, funest,
   futile, gloomy, graceless, grievous, hapless, hard-luck guy,
   hardcase, heartbreaking, ill, ill off, ill-advised, ill-boding,
   ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-seasoned,
   ill-starred, ill-suited, ill-timed, impolitic, improper,
   in adverse circumstances, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt,
   inauspicious, incongruous, inconvenient, ineffective, ineffectual,
   inefficacious, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune,
   intempestive, intrusive, irrelevant, lame, lamentable, late, loser,
   lowering, luckless, mal a propos, malapropos, malefic, manque,
   menacing, miscarried, miscarrying, miserable, mistimed,
   of evil portent, of no effect, off base, ominous, out of line,
   out of luck, out of phase, out of place, out of time, pathetic,
   pitiable, planet-struck, poor, poor unfortunate, portending,
   portentous, premature, regrettable, ruinous, sad, sad sack,
   schlemiel, schlimazel, short of luck, sinister, somber,
   star-crossed, starred, stickit, stillborn, successless, sure loser,
   terrible, threatening, too late, too soon, tragic, unbefitting,
   unblessed, underprivileged, undesirable, unfavorable, unfit,
   unfitting, unhandy, unhappy, unlucky, unmeet, unprofitable,
   unpromising, unpropitious, unprosperous, unprovidential, unready,
   unripe, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuccessful, unsuitable, untimely,
   untoward, unwise, upsetting, useless, victim, woebegone, woeful,
   wretched, wrong

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