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unfortunatly

unfortunatly is the obsolete spelling of unfortunately.

unfortunatly is the misspelling of unfortunately.

Meaning of unfortunately

Adverb

unfortunately (comparative more unfortunately, superlative most unfortunately)

  1. Happening through bad luck, or because of some unfortunate event.
    • He unfortunately placed his hand on a loose brick.
    Synonyms:
    unluckily
  2. Used (as a parenthetical word, often a sentence adverb) to express disappointment, compassion, sorrow, regret, or grief.
    • The houses which burned down could have been saved. Unfortunately, the fire truck had broken down on the way.

Forms of unfortunatly

comparativemore unfortunatly
superlativemost unfortunatly

Questions about unfortunatly

What is unfortunatly the obsolete spelling of?
Unfortunatly is the obsolete spelling of unfortunately.

Words near unfortunatly in the dictionary

  1. unfortunate-looking
  2. unfortunately
  3. unfortunateness
  4. unfortunates
  5. unfortunatest
  6. unfortunatly
  7. unfortune
  8. unfortuned
  9. unfortunes
  10. unforward
  11. unforwarded

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unfortunatly (page history and authors); unfortunately (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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