unfortunate - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

a person who suffers misfortune

Synonyms

• unfortunate
• unfortunate person

More generic

• individual
• mortal
• person
• somebody
• someone
• soul

More specific

• Ishmael
• Job
• abandoned person
• amputee
• captive
• castaway
• choker
• crier
• desperate
• diseased person
• failure
• griever
• have-not
• homeless
• homeless person
• jinx
• jonah
• lamenter
• languisher
• loser
• maroon
• mourner
• nonstarter
• nympholept
• outcast
• pariah
• poor person
• prisoner
• schlimazel
• shlimazel
• sick person
• sorrower
• subsister
• sufferer
• survivor
• unsuccessful person
• victim
• weeper

Adjective

not auspicious; boding ill

Synonyms

• inauspicious
• unfortunate

Related

• unpromising

Adjective

unsuitable or regrettable

Synonyms

• unfortunate

Related

• infelicitous

Adjective

not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune

Synonyms

• unfortunate

Related

• abject
• black
• calamitous
• disastrous
• dispossessed
• doomed
• downtrodden
• fatal
• fateful
• hapless
• homeless
• ill-fated
• ill-omened
• ill-starred
• infelicitous
• miserable
• misfortunate
• pathetic
• piteous
• pitiable
• pitiful
• poor
• regrettable
• roofless
• too bad
• unhappy
• unlucky
• wretched

Opposite / Antonyms

• fortunate

Also See

• luckless
• underprivileged
• unlucky
• unsuccessful

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