unfortunate person

Questions about unfortunate person

What does unfortunate person mean?

unfortunate person means "a person who suffers misfortune".

What is another word for unfortunate person?

Close synonyms include unfortunate. 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.

Is unfortunate person a common word?

unfortunate person is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.