unfortunate meaning
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- NounPLunfortunatesSUF-ate
- AdjectiveCOMmore unfortunateSUPmost unfortunate
- not favored by fortune.
- marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
- not favored by fortune.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- They see how serious it is not to "loosen the apron strings"; how unfortunate it may be to talk about a child in his presence; how we must take people where...
- It was an unfortunate slip of the tongue, and he did not intend it that way.
- Teachers should also avoid setting long poems in the lower and middle classes to be absorbed in homœopathical doses during the whole of a long term by the unfortunate children.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
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