| 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" |
| flatfish | | |
| n. (food) | 1. flatfish | sweet lean whitish flesh of any of numerous thin-bodied fish; usually served as thin fillets. |
| ~ saltwater fish | flesh of fish from the sea used as food. |
| ~ flounder | flesh of any of various American and European flatfish. |
| ~ fillet of sole, sole | lean flesh of any of several flatfish. |
| ~ halibut | lean flesh of very large flatfish of Atlantic or Pacific. |
| n. (animal) | 2. flatfish | any of several families of fishes having flattened bodies that swim along the sea floor on one side of the body with both eyes on the upper side. |
| ~ acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish | a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays. |
| ~ heterosomata, order heterosomata, order pleuronectiformes | flatfishes: halibut; sole; flounder; plaice; turbot; tonguefishes. |
| ~ flounder | any of various European and non-European marine flatfish. |
| ~ righteye flounder, righteyed flounder | flounders with both eyes on the right side of the head. |
| ~ holibut, halibut | marine food fish of the northern Atlantic or northern Pacific; the largest flatfish and one of the largest teleost fishes. |
| ~ lefteye flounder, lefteyed flounder | flatfishes with both eyes on the left side of the head. |
| ~ tongue-fish, tonguefish | left-eyed marine flatfish whose tail tapers to a point; of little commercial value. |
| ~ sole | right-eyed flatfish; many are valued as food; most common in warm seas especially European. |
| palm | | |
| n. (body) | 1. palm, thenar | the inner surface of the hand from the wrist to the base of the fingers. |
| ~ region, area | a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve.; "in the abdominal region" |
| ~ hand, manus, mitt, paw | the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb.; "he had the hands of a surgeon"; "he extended his mitt" |
| ~ thenar | the fleshy area of the palm at the base of the thumb. |
| n. (quantity) | 2. palm | a linear unit based on the length or width of the human hand. |
| ~ linear measure, linear unit | a unit of measurement of length. |
| n. (plant) | 3. palm, palm tree | any plant of the family Palmae having an unbranched trunk crowned by large pinnate or palmate leaves. |
| ~ arecaceae, family arecaceae, family palmaceae, family palmae, palm family, palmaceae, palmae | chiefly tropical trees and shrubs and vines usually having a tall columnar trunk bearing a crown of very large leaves; coextensive with the order Palmales. |
| ~ sago palm | any of various tropical Asian palm trees the trunks of which yield sago. |
| ~ feather palm | palm having pinnate or featherlike leaves. |
| ~ fan palm | palm having palmate or fan-shaped leaves. |
| ~ calamus | any tropical Asian palm of the genus Calamus; light tough stems are a source of rattan canes. |
| ~ fishtail palm | attractive East Indian palm having distinctive bipinnate foliage. |
| ~ coco, coco palm, cocoa palm, coconut palm, coconut tree, cocos nucifera, coconut | tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics. |
| ~ corozo, corozo palm | any of several tropical American palms bearing corozo nuts. |
| ~ euterpe oleracea, cabbage palm | Brazilian palm of genus Euterpe whose leaf buds are eaten like cabbage when young. |
| ~ cabbage tree, livistona australis, cabbage palm | Australian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young. |
| ~ nipa fruticans, nipa palm | any creeping semiaquatic feather palm of the genus Nipa found in mangrove swamps and tidal estuaries; its sap is used for a liquor; leaves are used for thatch; fruit has edible seeds. |
| ~ raffia farinifera, raffia palm, raffia ruffia | a large feather palm of Africa and Madagascar having very long pinnatisect fronds yielding a strong commercially important fiber from its leafstalks. |
| ~ lady palm | any of several small palms of the genus Rhapis; cultivated as houseplants. |
| ~ royal palm, roystonea regia | tall feather palm of southern Florida and Cuba. |
| ~ roystonea oleracea, cabbage palm | West Indian palm with leaf buds that are edible when young. |
| ~ tree | a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms. |
| n. (communication) | 4. decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm, ribbon | an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event. |
| ~ accolade, honor, laurels, award, honour | a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction.; "an award for bravery" |
| ~ congressional medal of honor, medal of honor | the highest U.S. military decoration awarded for bravery and valor in action `above and beyond the call of duty'. |
| ~ distinguished service medal | a United States military decoration for meritorious service in wartime duty of great responsibility. |
| ~ distinguished service cross | a United States Army decoration for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy. |
| ~ navy cross | a United States Navy decoration for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy. |
| ~ distinguished flying cross | a United States Air Force decoration for heroism while participating in an aerial flight. |
| ~ air medal | a United States Air Force decoration for meritorious achievement while participating in an aerial flight. |
| ~ silver star, silver star medal | a United States military decoration for gallantry in action. |
| ~ bronze star, bronze star medal | a United States military decoration awarded for meritorious service (except in aerial flight). |
| ~ order of the purple heart, purple heart | a United States military decoration awarded to any member of the armed forces who is wounded in action. |
| ~ oak leaf cluster | a United States military decoration consisting of bronze or silver oak leaves and acorns awarded to anyone who has won a given medal before. |
| ~ victoria cross | a British military decoration for gallantry. |
| ~ distinguished conduct medal | a British military decoration for distinguished conduct in the field. |
| ~ distinguished service order | a British military decoration for special service in action. |
| ~ croix de guerre | a French military decoration for gallantry. |
| ~ medaille militaire | a French military decoration. |
| v. (contact) | 5. handle, palm | touch, lift, or hold with the hands.; "Don't handle the merchandise" |
| ~ field | catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket. |
| ~ touch | make physical contact with, come in contact with.; "Touch the stone for good luck"; "She never touched her husband" |
| ~ fumble | handle clumsily. |
| ~ manipulate | hold something in one's hands and move it. |
| ~ manhandle | handle roughly.; "I was manhandled by the police" |
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