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unfortunately


adjective

  1. suffering from bad luck: an unfortunate person.
  2. unfavorable or inauspicious: an unfortunate beginning.
  3. regrettable or deplorable: an unfortunate remark.
  4. marked by or inviting misfortune: an unfortunate development.
  5. lamentable; sad: the unfortunate death of her parents.

noun

  1. an unfortunate person.

adverb

  1. (sentence modifier) it is regrettable that; unluckily

adjective

  1. causing or attended by misfortune
  2. unlucky, unsuccessful, or unhappyan unfortunate character
  3. regrettable or unsuitablean unfortunate speech

noun

  1. an unlucky person

adv.1540s, from unfortunate + -ly (2). Originally “not successfully, to a regrettable extent.” The proper meaning is now rare; the main modern sense of “sad to say,” in parenthetical use, recorded from 1770s. adj.1520s, “unlucky,” from un- (1) “not” + fortunate. Infortunate in same sense is from late 14c. (along with a verb infortune “to render unhappy,” and a noun meaning “bad luck). In late 18c.-early 19c., unfortunate woman was a polite way to say “prostitute.” The noun meaning “one who is not fortunate” is recorded from 1630s.

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