unfortunate (n.)
unfortunate (adj.)
- abortive
- afflictive
- apocalyptic
- awful
- awkward
- bad
- baleful
- baneful
- black
- boding
- bootless
- calamitous
- catastrophic
- cursed
- dark
- deplorable
- depressed
- dire
- disastrous
- dismal
- distressing
- disturbing
- doomed
- dreary
- evil
- failing
- fatal
- fateful
- foreboding
- forlorn
- fruitless
- futile
- gloomy
- graceless
- grievous
- hapless
- heartbreaking
- ill
- ill-advised
- ill-chosen
- ill-considered
- ill-fated
- ill-omened
- ill-starred
- ill-timed
- impolitic
- improper
- inadvisable
- inappropriate
- inapt
- inauspicious
- incongruous
- inconvenient
- ineffective
- ineffectual
- inefficacious
- inept
- inexpedient
- infelicitous
- inopportune
- intrusive
- irrelevant
- lame
- lamentable
- late
- lowering
- luckless
- malapropos
- malefic
- manque
- menacing
- miserable
- ominous
- pathetic
- pitiable
- poor
- portentous
- premature
- regrettable
- ruinous
- sad
- sinister
- somber
- starred
- stillborn
- terrible
- threatening
- tragic
- unbefitting
- unblessed
- underprivileged
- undesirable
- unfavorable
- unfit
- unfitting
- unhappy
- unlucky
- unprofitable
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- unready
- unripe
- unseasonable
- unseemly
- unsuccessful
- unsuitable
- untimely
- untoward
- unwise
- upsetting
- useless
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
- wrong
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had,—being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."
O Miss Bailey!
Unfortunate Miss Bailey!
One more unfortunate
Weary of breath,
Rashly importunate,
Gone to her death.
