Synonyms of the word

unfortunate

• adj. not favored by fortune.
• adj. marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
• n. An unlucky person.

abject

• adj. (obsolete) Rejected; cast aside.
• adj. Sunk to or existing in a low condition, state, or position.
• adj. Cast down in spirit or hope; degraded; servile; grovelling; despicable; lacking courage; offered in a…
• adj. Showing utter hopelessness, helplessness; showing resignation; wretched.
• n. A person in the lowest and most despicable condition; a castaway; outcast.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast off or out; to reject.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cast down; hence, to abase; to degrade; to lower; to debase.

black

• adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
• adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
• adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the…
• adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
• adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”).
• adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
• adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
• adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
• adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
• adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
• adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black"…
• adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a…
• adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
• adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
• n. (countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light…
• n. (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.
• n. (countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
• n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
• n. (sometimes capitalised, countable) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
• n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the, countable) The black ball.
• n. (baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.
• n. (Britain, countable) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
• n. (informal, countable) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
• n. (in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
• n. (countable) Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
• n. (obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.
• v. To make black, to blacken.
• v. To apply blacking to something.
• v. (Britain) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

calamitous

• adj. Concerning or involving calamity, disastrous.

disastrous

• adj. of the nature of a disaster; calamitous.
• adj. foreboding disaster; ill-omened.

dispossessed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of dispossess.
• adj. Homeless.
• adj. Impoverished.

doomed

• adj. Certain to suffer death, failure, or a similarly negative outcome.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of doom.

downtrodden

• adj. (figuratively) Oppressed, persecuted or subjugated.
• adj. Trodden down.
• v. past participle of downtrod.

fatal

• adj. Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny.
• adj. Foreboding death or great disaster.
• adj. Causing death or destruction.
• adj. (computing) Causing a sudden end to the running of a program.
• n. A fatality; an event that leads to death.
• n. (computing) A fatal error; a failure that causes a program to terminate.

fateful

• adj. Momentous, significant, setting or sealing one’s fate.
• adj. Determined in advance by fate, fated.

hapless

• adj. Very unlucky; ill-fated.
• adj. Devoid of talent or skill.

homeless

• adj. Lacking a permanent place of residence.

ill-fated

• adj. Unlucky; doomed.

ill-omened

• adj. Having a bad omen; inauspicious; unlucky.

ill-starred

• adj. doomed to a bad fate; hapless.

inauspicious

• adj. Not auspicious; ill-omened; unfortunate; unlucky; unfavorable.

individual

• n. A person considered alone, rather than as belonging to a group of people.
• n. (law) A single physical human being as a legal subject, as opposed to a legal person such as a corporation.
• n. An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
• n. (statistics) An element belonging to a population.
• adj. Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.
• adj. Intended for a single person as opposed to more than one person.

infelicitous

• adj. Unhappy or unfortunate.
• adj. Inappropriate or awkward; not well said, expressed, or done.

luckless

• adj. Unsuccessful, in a failing manner.
• adj. Without luck.

miserable

• adj. In a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
• adj. Very bad (at something); unskilled, incompetent.
• adj. Wretched; worthless; mean.
• adj. (obsolete) Causing unhappiness or misery.
• adj. (obsolete) Avaricious; niggardly; miserly.
• n. A miserable person; a wretch.

misfortunate

• adj. Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.

mortal

• adj. Susceptible to death by aging, sickness, injury, or wound; not immortal.
• adj. Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).
• adj. Fatally vulnerable; vital.
• adj. Of or relating to the time of death.
• adj. Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
• adj. Human; belonging to man, who is mortal.
• adj. Very painful or tedious; wearisome.
• adj. (Britain, slang) Very drunk; wasted; smashed.
• n. A human; someone susceptible to death.

pathetic

• adj. Arousing pity, sympathy, or compassion.
• adj. Arousing scornful pity or contempt, often due to miserable inadequacy.
• adj. (obsolete) Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

person

• n. An individual; usually a human being.
• n. The physical body of a being seen as distinct from the mind, character, etc.
• n. (law) Any individual or formal organization with standing before the courts.
• n. (law) The human genitalia; specifically, the penis.
• n. (grammar) A linguistic category used to distinguish between the speaker of an utterance and those to whom…
• n. (biology) A shoot or bud of a plant; a polyp or zooid of the compound Hydrozoa, Anthozoa, etc.; also,…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To represent as a person; to personify; to impersonate.
• v. (transitive, gender-neutral) To man.

piteous

• adj. pitiful; provoking pity, compassion, or sympathy.
• adj. (obsolete) pious; devout.
• adj. (obsolete) compassionate; tender.
• adj. (obsolete) paltry; mean; pitiful.

pitiable

• adj. That deserves, evokes or can be given pity; pitiful.

pitiful

• adj. (now rare) Feeling pity; merciful.
• adj. So appalling or sad that one feels or should feel sorry for it; eliciting pity.
• adj. Very small (of an amount or number).

poor

• adj. With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
• adj. Of low quality.
• adj. Used to express pity.
• adj. Deficient in a specified way.
• adj. Inadequate, insufficient.
• adj. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
• n. (with "the") Those who have little or no possessions or money, taken as a group.

regrettable

• adj. Able to be regretted, especially deserving of regret.

roofless

• adj. Without a roof, open to the sky.

somebody

• pron. Some unspecified person.
• n. A recognised person, a celebrity.

someone

• pron. Some person.
• n. A partially specified but unnamed person.

soul

• n. (religion, folklore) The spirit or essence of a person usually thought to consist of one's thoughts and…
• n. The spirit or essence of anything.
• n. Life, energy, vigor.
• n. (music) Soul music.
• n. A person, especially as one among many.
• n. An individual life.
• n. (mathematics) A kind of submanifold involved in the soul theorem of Riemannian geometry.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To endow with a soul; to furnish with a soul or mind.
• v. (obsolete) To afford suitable sustenance.

underprivileged

• adj. Deprived of the opportunities and advantages of others.
• n. A deprived person; deprived people (normally used as a plural).

unhappy

• adj. Not happy; sad.
• adj. Not satisfied; unsatisfied.
• adj. (chiefly dated) Not lucky; unlucky.
• adj. (chiefly dated) Not suitable; unsuitable.
• n. An individual who is not happy.

unlucky

• adj. Unfortunate, marked by misfortune.
• adj. Inauspicious.
• adj. Having ill luck.
• adj. Bringing ill luck.

unpromising

• adj. Not promising.

unsuccessful

• adj. Failed, not successful.

wretched

• adj. Very miserable; sunk in, or accompanied by, deep affliction or distress, as from want, anxiety, or grief;…
• adj. Worthless; paltry; very poor or mean; miserable.
• adj. (obsolete) Hatefully contemptible; despicable; wicked.
• v. Misspelling of retched.