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Misfortunate   Listen
adjective
Misfortunate  adj.  Producing misfortune. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Misfortunate" Quotes from Famous Books



... accorded Sicurano his wish, the latter threw himself, weeping, on his knees before him and putting off, as it were at one and the same time, his manly voice and masculine demeanour, said, 'My lord, I am the wretched misfortunate Ginevra, who have these six years gone wandering in man's disguise about the world, having been foully and wickedly aspersed by this traitor Ambrogiuolo and given by yonder cruel and unjust man to one of his servants to be slain and eaten ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio

... disceased father had even the least scintillation that how his patrimony would involve me in his mechanitions he would sooner have never died than wish my brother to share it and his revered bones are now perhaps turning to behold my misfortunate circumstances. But I must beg leaf to refrain this matter ...
— The Bed-Book of Happiness • Harold Begbie



Words linked to "Misfortunate" :   unfortunate, piteous, hapless, pitiable, pitiful, miserable, pathetic, wretched



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