Infortunate

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

Unfortunate, unlucky..

Definitions by Sense

1. Unfortunate, unlucky.
2. (astrology) (of a star, planet, etc.) Bringing bad luck, causing misfortune, malevolent.
3. (by extension) Ominous, inauspicious.
4. An unfortunate.
5. (astrology) An 'unfortunate' planet, star, etc.
6. (obsolete, astrology, ambitransitive) To subject a person to a, or cause a celestial body to be of malevolent influence; to render 'infortunate'.

Example Sentences

Henry, though he be infortunate

That infortunate imperfit Embrion of my idle houres the Ile of Dogs before mentioned, breeding vnto me ſuch bitter throwes in the teaming as it did, and the tempeſtes that aroſe at his birth, ſo aſtoniſhing outragious and violent as if my braine had bene conceiued of another Hercules, I was ſo terrifyed with my owne encreaſe (like a woman long trauailing to bee deliuered of a monſter) that it was no ſooner borne but I was glad to run from it.

a most infortunate chance

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• more infortunate
• most infortunate
• infortunates
• infortunating
• infortunated

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