unfortunate

1. 1.

   a person who suffers misfortune

   Synonymsunfortunate person

   Broaderperson

   Narrowerabandoned personamputeechokerdesperatehomelessJobjonahlanguisherfailuremaroon

Other forms of unfortunate

plural

unfortunates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about unfortunate

What does unfortunate mean?

unfortunate means "not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unfortunate?

unfortunate has 4 syllables: un-for-tu-nate. The stress falls on "for". In IPA it is /ənˈfɔɹtʃənət/.

What is another word for unfortunate?

Close synonyms include inauspicious, unfortunate person. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of unfortunate?

The recorded antonyms are fortunate.

Is unfortunate a common word?

unfortunate is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with unfortunate?

1 word rhymes with unfortunate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.