— fortuneless , adj.
/fawr"cheuhn/ , n. , v. , fortuned, fortuning .
n.
1. position in life as determined by wealth: to make one's fortune.
2. wealth or riches: to lose a small fortune in bad investments.
3. great wealth; ample stock of money, property, and the like: to be worth a fortune.
4. chance; luck: They each had the bad fortune to marry the wrong person.
5. fortunes . things that happen or are to happen to a person in his or her life.
6. fate; lot; destiny: whatever my fortune may be.
7. ( cap. ) chance personified, commonly regarded as a mythical being distributing arbitrarily or capriciously the lots of life: Perhaps Fortune will smile on our venture.
8. good luck; success; prosperity: a family blessed by fortune.
9. Archaic. a wealthy woman; an heiress.
10. tell someone's fortune , to profess to inform someone of future events in his or her own life; foretell.
v.t.
11. Archaic. to endow (someone or something) with a fortune.
v.i.
12. Archaic. to chance or happen; come by chance.
[ 1250-1300; ME fortuna chance, luck, fortune, deriv. of fort- (s. of fors ) chance ]
Syn. 4. fate, destiny, providence; kismet, karma. 7. Moira; Lady Luck.