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Adjective Having, prone to, or marked by bad luck unlucky hapless luckless unhappy poor star-crossed ill-fated ill-starred cursed doomed jinxed wretched forlorn hard-luck hopeless ill-omened miserable pitiful snakebit snakebitten unsuccessful unprosperous afflicted awkward bad broken burdened damaging desperate destitute forsaken ill-advised ill-timed inopportune pained ruined shattered stricken troubled unbecoming unfavourableUK unfavorableUS out of luck in a bad way “Charity days to raise money for unfortunate people.” Adjective Caused or accompanied by bad luck adverse lamentable unfavorableUS unfavourableUK unlucky untimely untoward disastrous calamitous deplorable disadvantageous distressing grievous regrettable tragic unadvantageous unwelcome detrimental hard harmful hostile inauspicious inimical injurious ruinous tough unpromising unpropitious black dire distressful heartbreaking heartrending inopportune miserable tragical woeful awful ill-advised ill-fated ill-starred inappropriate infelicitous terrible unbecoming unsuitable wretched “The unfortunate disadvantage is that you then have to cycle 17.5 miles home on a very full stomach.” Adjective Regrettable or inappropriate inappropriate inapt infelicitous regrettable unsuitable injudicious tactless untoward “Anyone who can afford one will not regret it, despite the unfortunate way it is sold.” Adjective Bringing about ruin or misfortune calamitous cataclysmal cataclysmic catastrophic damning destructive disastrous fatal fateful ruinous “… an unfortunate chain of events destroyed the business.” Noun loser underdog weakling wretch lame duck Find more words! 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