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/ənfˈɔrtʃənət/ /ənfˈɔrtʃunət/ Listen

Unfortunate

adjective

Not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune. "An unfortunate decision" , "Unfortunate investments" , "An unfortunate night for all concerned"

Not auspicious; boding ill. Synonym: inauspicious.

Unsuitable or regrettable. "An unfortunate speech"

noun

A person who suffers misfortune. Synonym: unfortunate person.

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"Unfortunate" Quotes from Famous Books

... a standpoint be the right one, certainly the ambition of any nation (or indeed of any group) to have a religion peculiar to itself and an outgrowth of its own culture is unfortunate, and indeed comes from the very essence of morbid nationalism. In such desires there is thinly veiled the hope that through religion the old claim of nations to the right to temporal supremacy may be vindicated. Lagarde, in about 1874, was probably the first to say ...

— The Psychology of Nations - A Contribution to the Philosophy of History • G.E. Partridge

... approached leading naval men and powerful editors, that he sent three separate minutes upon the danger to various public bodies, notably to the Committee for National Defence, and that he touched upon the matter in an article in The Fortnightly Review. In some unfortunate way subjects of national welfare are in this country continually subordinated to party politics, so that a self- evident proposition, such as the danger of a nation being fed from without, is waved aside and ignored, because it will not fit in with some general political ...

— Danger! and Other Stories • Arthur Conan Doyle

... somewhat inclined to grow imperious himself, though always kept under restraint by Fru Astrida's good training, and Count Bernard's authority, and his whole generous nature would have revolted against treating Alberic, or indeed his meanest vassal, as Lothaire used the unfortunate children who were his playfellows. Perhaps this made him look on with great horror at the tyranny which Lothaire exercised; at any rate he learnt to abhor it more, and to make many resolutions against ordering people about uncivilly when once he should ...

— The Little Duke - Richard the Fearless • Charlotte M. Yonge

... hard-headed manliness of character, can afford—deeply though we deplore their weakness and errors—to be lenient toward the less favoured foreigner. Our mission is to educate him.—And this I think you should not have forgotten, Lovegrove. You should have acted upon it. You should have brought your unfortunate friend to me. I should have been quite willing to give him half an hour, or even longer. A few facts, a little plain speaking, might have saved him from more than I quite care to contemplate, both here and ...

— The Far Horizon • Lucas Malet

... The unfortunate Catholics, led thither in groups, were either stabbed with daggers or mutilated with axes, and the bodies thrown down the well. Guy-Rochette was one of the first to be dragged up. For himself he asked ...

— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere

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