All unfortunate synonyms
un·for·tu·nate
U u adj unfortunate
- calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
- anguished — Anguished means showing or feeling great mental suffering or physical pain.
- graceless — without any sense of right or propriety.
- luckless — having no luck; unfortunate; hapless; ill-fated; turning out or ending disastrously: a luckless venture that ruined many of the investors.
- low-down — If someone gives you the low-down on a person or thing, they tell you all the important information about them.
- irremediable — not admitting of remedy, cure, or repair: irremediable conduct.
- lamentable — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
- badly off — If you are badly off, you are in a bad situation.
- early on — in or during the first part of a period of time, a course of action, a series of events, etc.: early in the year.
- dismal — causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.
noun unfortunate
- wretch — a deplorably unfortunate or unhappy person.
- inappropriateness — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- infelicity — the quality or state of being unhappy; unhappiness.
adjective unfortunate
- inappropriate — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- wrackful — ruinous.
- fateful — having momentous significance or consequences; decisively important; portentous: a fateful meeting between the leaders of the two countries.
- wretched — very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.