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unfortunant

unfortunant is the misconstruction of unfortunate.

Meaning of unfortunate

Adjective

unfortunate (comparative more unfortunate, superlative most unfortunate)

  1. Not favored by fortune.
    • Thus ended the life of one of the most unfortunate of small railway concerns.1958 June, John Marshall, “The Forest of Dean Central Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 422
    Synonyms:
    unsuccessful
    Antonyms:
    fortunate
  2. Marked or accompanied by or resulting in misfortune.
    • But as the tower and towee reached the cross-roads again, another car, negligently driven, came round the corner, hit the Morris, and severed the tow rope, sending the unfortunate car back again into the shop window[…]1933, Henry Sturmey, H. Walter Staner, The Autocar
    Synonyms:
    unlucky
    Antonyms:
    fortunate, lucky
  3. Regrettable or unsuitable.

See all 5 meanings of unfortunate

Questions about unfortunant

What is unfortunant the misconstruction of?
Unfortunant is the misconstruction of unfortunate.

Words near unfortunant in the dictionary

  1. unfortify
  2. unfortifying
  3. unfortuitous
  4. unfortuitously
  5. unfortunally
  6. unfortunant
  7. unfortunantly
  8. unfortunate
  9. unfortunate-looking
  10. unfortunately
  11. unfortunateness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unfortunant (page history and authors); unfortunate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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