infortunate

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin infortunatus.

Adjective

infortunate (comparative more infortunate, superlative most infortunate)

1. (obsolete) Unfortunate, unlucky.

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   • 1599, [Thomas] Nashe, Nashes Lenten Stuffe, […], London: […] [Thomas Judson and Valentine Simmes] for N[icholas] L[ing] and C[uthbert] B[urby] […], →OCLC, page 2:

     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.

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     a most infortunate chance

Related terms

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “infortunate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Italian

Adjective

infortunate

1. feminine plural of infortunato

Noun

infortunate f

1. plural of infortunata

Verb

infortunate

1. feminine plural of infortunato

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Latin

Adjective

(deprecated template usage) īnfortūnāte

1. vocative masculine singular of īnfortūnātus