Unluckily

Definition: Unluckily

Unluckily

Adverb

1. By bad luck; "unfortunately it rained all day"; "alas, I cannot stay".

Date "unluckily" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Unluckily

Synonyms: alas (adv), regrettably (adv), unfortunately (adv). (additional references)

Antonym: fortunately (adv). (additional references)

Crosswords: Unluckily

English words defined with "unluckily": Misfall, Mishappen ♦ Sinistrously. (references)

Specialty definitions using "unluckily": One-horse Universities. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Unluckily he had fallen so that the whole weight rested upon his breast.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	In the midst of it unluckily I made a sudden gesture of a revolutionary nature.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Unluckily" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unluckily" is used about 30 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	30	63,341

Expression using "unluckily": unluckily in cards lucky i. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "unluckily"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Arabic		‏لسوء الحظ (regrettably, unfortunately). (various references)

French		par malheur, malheureusement (unfortunately, unhappily). (various references)

German		unglücklicherweise (accidentally, unfortunately, unhappily, unsuccessful), unglücklich (hapless, ill fated, inauspicious, infelicitous, miserable, miserably, sad, unfortunate, unfortunately, unhappily, unhappy, unjoyous, unlucky, unrequited, unsuccessful, untoward). (various references)

Greek		ατυχώσ (regrettably). (various references)

Italian		sfortunatamente (unfortunately). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		運悪く . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		う�"わるく. (various references)

Pig Latin		uckilyunlay

Portuguese		infeliz (devoted, disastrous, evil, hapless, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicious, infelicitous, jonah, luckless, sorrowful, unblessed, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, unsuccessful, wretch, wretched). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		neuspešno, nesrećom, nesrećno (unfortunately, unhappily), na nesreću (unfortunately, unhappily). (various references)

Spanish		infelizmente. (various references)

Swedish		olyckligtvis (unfortunately, unhappily). (various references)

Turkish		ne yazık ki (unfortunately, unhappily), maalesef (I am sorry, sorry, unfortunately, unhappily, with regret). (various references)

Ukrainian		на нещастя. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Unluckily" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: unfussily, unluckyly. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "unluckily" (pronounced 'Un*luck"i*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-i-k-l-l-n-u-u-y"
	-2 letters: luckily, unlucky.
	-3 letters: clunky.
	-4 letters: clink, clunk, cully, linky, lucky.
	-5 letters: cull, icky, illy, inky, inly, kill, kiln, lick, lily, link, liny, luck, lulu, lunk, luny, nick, nill, null, unci, yill, yuck.
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