| unfortunate | | |
| n. (person) | 1. unfortunate, unfortunate person | a person who suffers misfortune. |
| ~ individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul | a human being.; "there was too much for one person to do" |
| ~ abandoned person | someone for whom hope has been abandoned. |
| ~ amputee | someone who has had a limb removed by amputation. |
| ~ choker | an unfortunate person who is unable to perform effectively because of nervous tension or agitation.; "he could win if he wasn't a choker" |
| ~ desperate | a person who is frightened and in need of help.; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate" |
| ~ homeless, homeless person | someone unfortunate without housing.; "a homeless was found murdered in Central Park" |
| ~ job | any long-suffering person who withstands affliction without despairing. |
| ~ jinx, jonah | a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him. |
| ~ languisher | a person who languishes. |
| ~ nonstarter, unsuccessful person, loser, failure | a person with a record of failing; someone who loses consistently. |
| ~ maroon | a person who is stranded (as on an island).; "when the tide came in I was a maroon out there" |
| ~ griever, lamenter, mourner, sorrower | a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died). |
| ~ nympholept | a person seized by nympholepsy. |
| ~ castaway, outcast, pariah, ishmael | a person who is rejected (from society or home). |
| ~ have-not, poor person | a person with few or no possessions. |
| ~ captive, prisoner | a person who is confined; especially a prisoner of war. |
| ~ schlimazel, shlimazel | (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything. |
| ~ diseased person, sick person, sufferer | a person suffering from an illness. |
| ~ subsister, survivor | one who lives through affliction.; "the survivors of the fire were taken to a hospital" |
| ~ victim | an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance. |
| ~ crier, weeper | a person who weeps. |
| adj. | 2. unfortunate | not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune.; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" |
| ~ abject | most unfortunate or miserable.; "the most abject slaves joined in the revolt"; "abject poverty" |
| ~ calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful, black | (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin.; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"; "a fateful error" |
| ~ dispossessed, homeless, roofless | physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security.; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another" |
| ~ hapless, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, poor, miserable, pitiable, pitiful, wretched | deserving or inciting pity.; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" |
| ~ ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky, doomed | marked by or promising bad fortune.; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons" |
| ~ downtrodden | abused or oppressed by people in power. |
| ~ infelicitous, unhappy | marked by or producing unhappiness.; "infelicitous circumstances"; "unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes" |
| ~ regrettable, too bad | deserving regret.; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church" |
| ~ luckless, unlucky | having or bringing misfortune.; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date" |
| ~ underprivileged | lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society. |
| ~ unsuccessful | not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome. |
| adj. | 3. inauspicious, unfortunate | not auspicious; boding ill. |
| ~ unpromising | unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment.; "faced an unpromising task"; "music for unpromising combinations of instruments" |
| adj. | 4. unfortunate | unsuitable or regrettable.; "an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech" |
| ~ infelicitous | not appropriate in application; defective.; "an infelicitous remark"; "infelicitous phrasing"; "the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy" |
| hapless | | |
| adj. | 1. hapless, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, poor, wretched | deserving or inciting pity.; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life" |
| ~ unfortunate | not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune.; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" |
| ill-fated | | |
| adj. | 1. doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky | marked by or promising bad fortune.; "their business venture was doomed from the start"; "an ill-fated business venture"; "an ill-starred romance"; "the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons" |
| ~ unfortunate | not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune.; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" |
| unlucky | | |
| adj. | 1. luckless, unlucky | having or bringing misfortune.; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date" |
| ~ unfortunate | not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune.; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" |
| ~ hexed, jinxed | (usually used colloquially) causing or accompanied by misfortune. |
| jinx | | |
| n. (person) | 1. jinx, jonah | a person believed to bring bad luck to those around him. |
| ~ unfortunate, unfortunate person | a person who suffers misfortune. |
| n. (communication) | 2. curse, hex, jinx, whammy | an evil spell.; "a witch put a curse on his whole family"; "he put the whammy on me" |
| ~ magic spell, magical spell, charm, spell | a verbal formula believed to have magical force.; "he whispered a spell as he moved his hands"; "inscribed around its base is a charm in Balinese" |
| v. (communication) | 3. bewitch, enchant, glamour, hex, jinx, witch | cast a spell over someone or something; put a hex on someone or something. |
| ~ voodoo | bewitch by or as if by a voodoo. |
| ~ spell | place under a spell. |
| ~ becharm, charm | control by magic spells, as by practicing witchcraft. |
| v. (cognition) | 4. jinx | foredoom to failure.; "This project is jinxed!" |
| ~ preordain, foreordain, predestine | foreordain or determine beforehand. |
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