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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unfortunate \Un*for"tu*nate\, adjective Not fortunate; unsuccessful; not prosperous; unlucky; attended with misfortune; unhappy; as, an unfortunate adventure; an unfortunate man; an unfortunate commander; unfortunate business. -- n. An unfortunate person. --Hood. -- {Un*for"tu*nate*ly}, adverb -- {Un*for"tu*nate*ness}, noun
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unfortunate
adjective
1: 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" [ant: {fortunate}]
2: not auspicious; boding ill [syn: {inauspicious}] [ant: {auspicious}]
3: unsuitable or regrettable; "an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech"
noun: a person who suffers misfortune [syn: {unfortunate person}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
162 Moby Thesaurus words for "unfortunate": abortive, afflictive, apocalyptic, awful, awkward, bad, badly off, baleful, baneful, black, bodeful, boding, bootless, calamitous, catastrophic, cursed, dark, deplorable, depressed, dire, disastrous, dismal, distressing, disturbing, donsie, doomed, doomful, dreary, evil, evil-starred, failed, failing, fatal, fateful, foreboding, forlorn, fortuneless, fruitless, funest, futile, gloomy, graceless, grievous, hapless, hard-luck guy, hardcase, heartbreaking, ill, ill off, ill-advised, ill-boding, ill-chosen, ill-considered, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-seasoned, ill-starred, ill-suited, ill-timed, impolitic, improper, in adverse circumstances, inadvisable, inappropriate, inapt, inauspicious, incongruous, inconvenient, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inept, inexpedient, infelicitous, inopportune, intempestive, intrusive, irrelevant, lame, lamentable, late, loser, lowering, luckless, mal a propos, malapropos, malefic, manque, menacing, miscarried, miscarrying, miserable, mistimed, of evil portent, of no effect, off base, ominous, out of line, out of luck, out of phase, out of place, out of time, pathetic, pitiable, planet-struck, poor, poor unfortunate, portending, portentous, premature, regrettable, ruinous, sad, sad sack, schlemiel, schlimazel, short of luck, sinister, somber, star-crossed, starred, stickit, stillborn, successless, sure loser, terrible, threatening, too late, too soon, tragic, unbefitting, unblessed, underprivileged, undesirable, unfavorable, unfit, unfitting, unhandy, unhappy, unlucky, unmeet, unprofitable, unpromising, unpropitious, unprosperous, unprovidential, unready, unripe, unseasonable, unseemly, unsuccessful, unsuitable, untimely, untoward, unwise, upsetting, useless, victim, woebegone, woeful, wretched, wrong
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