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infortune

infortune noun: misfortune.

Noun

infortune (usually uncountable, plural infortunes)

  1. (obsolete, usually) misfortune

Verb

infortune (third-person singular simple present infortunes, present participle infortuning, simple past and past participle infortuned)

  1. To afflict
  2. To have a malign influence

Forms of infortune

Noun
pluralinfortunes
Verb
third-person singular presentinfortunes
present participleinfortuning
past participleinfortuned
pastinfortuned

Origin of infortune

From Latin infortunium. See in- (“not”), and fortune.

Questions about infortune

What does infortune mean?
Infortune means misfortune.
What part of speech is infortune?
Infortune can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of infortune?
The plural of infortune is infortunes.

Words near infortune in the dictionary

  1. informs on
  2. informulable
  3. INFORSE
  4. infortitude
  5. infortunate
  6. infortune
  7. infortunes
  8. infortunity
  9. infoscape
  10. infoscapes
  11. infosec

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