English Explanatory Dictionary

infortunate

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Unfortunate, unlucky.
  2. (of a star, planet, etc.) Bringing bad luck, causing misfortune, malevolent.
  3. Ominous, inauspicious.
noun
  1. An unfortunate.
  2. An 'unfortunate' planet, star, etc.
verb
  1. To subject a person to a, or cause a celestial body to be of malevolent influence; to render 'infortunate'.

Word forms

infortunate more infortunate most infortunate infortunates infortunating infortunated

Etymology

The adjective is first attested circa 1390, in Middle English, the verb in 1570; inherited from Middle English infortunat(e), borrowed from Latin infortūnātus, see -ate (etymology 1, 2 and 3). Doublet of unfortunate.

Related words

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