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unfortunate - a person who suffers misfortune |
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individual,
mortal,
person,
somebody,
someone,
soul a single organism
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abandoned person someone for whom hope has been abandoned
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amputee someone who has had a limb removed by amputation
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choker a high tight collar
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desperate a person who is frightened and in need of help; "they prey on the hopes of the desperate"
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homeless,
homeless person poor people who unfortunately do not have a home to live in; "the homeless became a problem in the large cities"
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job a damaging piece of work; "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
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jinx,
jonah a book in the Old Testament that tells the story of Jonah and the whale
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languisher a person who languishes
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failure,
loser,
nonstarter,
unsuccessful person an unexpected omission; "he resented my failure to return his call"; "the mechanic's failure to check the brakes"
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maroon an exploding firework used as a warning signal
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griever,
lamenter,
mourner,
sorrower a person who is feeling grief (as grieving over someone who has died)
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nympholept a person seized by nympholepsy
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castaway,
ishmael,
outcast,
pariah a shipwrecked person
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have-not,
poor person a person with few or no possessions
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captive,
prisoner an animal that is confined
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schlimazel,
shlimazel (Yiddish) a very unlucky or inept person who fails at everything
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diseased person,
sick person,
sufferer a person suffering from an illness
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subsister,
survivor an animal that survives in spite of adversity; "only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters"
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victim an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance
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crier,
weeper a peddler who shouts to advertise the goods he sells
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unfortunate - 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" |
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fortunate presaging good fortune; "she made a fortunate decision to go to medical school"; "rosy predictions"
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underprivileged lacking the rights and advantages of other members of society
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luckless,
unlucky having or bringing misfortune; "Friday the 13th is an unlucky date"
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unsuccessful not successful; having failed or having an unfavorable outcome
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abject showing humiliation or submissiveness; "an abject apology"
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black,
calamitous,
disastrous,
fatal,
fateful marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
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dispossessed,
homeless,
roofless physically or spiritually homeless or deprived of security; "made a living out of shepherding dispossed people from one country to another"- James Stern
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hapless,
miserable,
misfortunate,
pathetic,
piteous,
pitiable,
pitiful,
poor,
wretched deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"
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doomed,
ill-fated,
ill-omened,
ill-starred,
unlucky marked for certain death; "the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed"
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downtrodden abused or oppressed by people in power
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infelicitous,
unhappy not appropriate in application; defective; "an infelicitous remark"; "infelicitous phrasing"; "the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy"
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regrettable,
too bad deserving regret; "regrettable remarks"; "it's regrettable that she didn't go to college"; "it's too bad he had no feeling himself for church"
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unfortunate - unsuitable or regrettable; "an unfortunate choice of words"; "an unfortunate speech" |
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infelicitous not appropriate in application; defective; "an infelicitous remark"; "infelicitous phrasing"; "the infelicitous typesetting was due to illegible copy"
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