Synonyms: unfortunate, unfortunate person
Definition: a person who suffers misfortune
Similar words: somebody, someone, soul, mortal, person, individual
Definition: a human being
Usage: there was too much for one person to do
Synonyms: inauspicious, unfortunate
Definition: not auspicious; boding ill
Similar words: unpromising
Definition: unlikely to bring about favorable results or enjoyment
Usage: faced an unpromising task; music for unpromising combinations of instruments
Synonyms: unfortunate
Definition: unsuitable or regrettable
Usage: an unfortunate choice of words; an unfortunate speech
Similar words: infelicitous
Definition: not appropriate in application; defective
Usage: an infelicitous remark; infelicitous phrasing; the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy
Synonyms: unfortunate
Definition: not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune
Usage: an unfortunate turn of events; an unfortunate decision; unfortunate investments; an unfortunate night for all concerned
Similar words: abject
Definition: most unfortunate or miserable
Usage: the most abject slaves joined in the revolt; abject poverty
Similar words: black, calamitous, fatal, fateful, disastrous
Definition: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
Usage: 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- Charles Darwin; it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it- Douglas MacArthur; a fateful error
Similar words: dispossessed, roofless, homeless
Definition: physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security
Usage: made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another- James Stern
Similar words: hapless, poor, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, wretched, miserable, misfortunate, pathetic
Definition: deserving or inciting pity
Usage: a hapless victim; miserable victims of war; the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic- Galsworthy; piteous appeals for help; pitiable homeless children; a pitiful fate; Oh, you poor thing; his poor distorted limbs; a wretched life
Similar words: doomed, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, unlucky
Definition: marked by or promising bad fortune
Usage: 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- W.H.Prescott
Similar words: downtrodden
Definition: abused or oppressed by people in power
Similar words: unhappy, infelicitous
Definition: marked by or producing unhappiness
Usage: infelicitous circumstances; unhappy caravans, straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes- American Guide Series
Similar words: too bad, regrettable
Definition: deserving regret
Usage: regrettable remarks; it's regrettable that she didn't go to college; it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church