transcription, транскрипция: [ ʌnfɔ:(r)tʃʊnət ]
( unfortunates)
1.
If you describe someone as unfortunate , you mean that something unpleasant or unlucky has happened to them. You can also describe the unpleasant things that happen to them as unfortunate .
Some unfortunate person passing below could all too easily be seriously injured...
Apparently he had been unfortunate enough to fall victim to a gang of thugs...
Through some unfortunate accident, the information reached me a day late...
It was unfortunate for Davey that his teacher did not take kindly to him.
= unlucky
ADJ
2.
If you describe something that has happened as unfortunate , you think that it is inappropriate, embarrassing, awkward, or undesirable.
It really is desperately unfortunate that this should have happened just now.
...the unfortunate incident of the upside-down Canadian flag...
ADJ
3.
You can describe someone as unfortunate when they are poor or have a difficult life.
Every year we have charity days to raise money for unfortunate people.
ADJ
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An unfortunate is someone who is unfortunate.
Dorothy was another of life’s unfortunates.
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