Unfortunate synonyms such as infelicitous, cursed, adverse, inappropriate, and inapt. Unfortunate is an adjective, and its antonyms are fortunate and lucky. Additionally, here are 57 synonyms, related words, and verbs for unfortunate.
cursed, doomed, down on one's luck, forlorn, hapless, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, jinxed, luckless, miserable, out of luck, pitiful, poor, star-crossed, unhappy, unlucky, and wretched.
adverse, awful, calamitous, detrimental, dire, disadvantageous, disastrous, distressing, grievous, hard, harmful, hostile, inauspicious, inimical, injurious, lamentable, miserable, ruinous, terrible, tough, tragic, unadvantageous, unfavourable, unlucky, unpromising, unpropitious, untimely, untoward, unwelcome, and wretched.
inappropriate, inapt, infelicitous, injudicious, regrettable, tactless, unsuitable, and untoward.