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Misfortunate

Definition: Misfortunate

Misfortunate

Adjective

1. Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "couldn't rescue the poor fellow"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "misfortunate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references)


Synonyms: Misfortunate

Synonyms: hapless (adj), miserable (adj), pathetic (adj), piteous (adj), pitiable (adj), pitiful (adj), poor (adj), wretched (adj). (additional references)

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Modern Translations: Misfortunate

Language Translations for "misfortunate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Manx

  

neuchoanagh (misfortune), lhag-haghyrtagh (accidental), drogh-haghyrtagh (accidental), arkyssagh (calamitous, distressed, needy person, pauper), anraahoil, anraahagh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

isfortunatemay

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Misfortunate

Misspellings

"Misfortunate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: misfortunates. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Misfortunate"

Words rhyming with "misfortunate" (pronounced 'Mis*for"tu*nate'): Abacinate, Abominate, Accriminate, Adnate, Agnominate, Alloxanate, Aluminate, Annominate, Antimonate, Arsenate, Assonate, Attaminate, Biacuminate, Bicarinate, Bicrenate, bigeminate, Binate, Biternate, Bituminate, Bombinate, Brevipennate, Brominate, Cacuminate, Calcinate, Carnate, Catenate, Coadunate, Coinquinate, Combinate, Compaginate, Comperendinate, Concatenate, Concinnate, Concionate, Concubinate, Connate, Conterminate, Criminate, Cyanate, Declinate, Defibrinate, Deglutinate, Ferricyanate, Ferrocyanate, Ferruminate, Festinate, Foreordinate, fortunate, Fraternate, Gangrenate. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Misfortunate

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-f-i-m-n-o-r-s-t-t-u"

-1 letter: refutations.

-2 letters: fumatories, misfortune, monetarist, refutation, uniformest.

-3 letters: aftermost, antiserum, antitumor, estimator, fetations, fortunate, manifesto, martinets, mutations, nefarious, reoutfits, ruminates, stationer, strontium, tautomers, transmute, unfairest.

-4 letters: amniotes, amoretti, amortise, aneurism, antirust, antismut, atomiser, enamours, ensiform, fainters, faintest, faitours, farinose, fermions, fetation, fistnote, fitments, foamiest, foramens, foremast, formants, formates, fortunes, fraenums, fremitus, furanose, infamous, intreats.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Misfortunate


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 69 73 66 6F 72 74 75 6E 61 74 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ..    ...    ..-.    ---    .-.    -    ..-    -.    .-    -    .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101001 01110011 01100110 01101111 01110010 01110100 01110101 01101110 01100001 01110100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#105 &#115 &#102 &#111 &#114 &#116 &#117 &#110 &#97 &#116 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 0069 0073 0066 006F 0072 0074 0075 006E 0061 0074 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

477585728184868780678671

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations 		5. Rhymes
6. Anagrams
7. Orthography
8. Bibliography


  

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