The word fortunate is used to describe a favorable or lucky outcome. Its antonyms refer to unfavorable or unlucky results. Some of the antonyms for fortunate are unlucky, unfortunate, cursed, jinxed, inauspicious, wretched, calamitous, hapless, and destitute. These words express a sense of disappointment, sadness, or misfortune. The antonyms for fortunate can be used to describe someone going through a difficult time or facing a negative situation. While fortunate implies a sense of abundance and relief, its antonyms indicate scarcity, deprivation, or hardship. By understanding the antonyms of fortunate we can have a more nuanced and complete understanding of the concept of 'fortune'.

What are the antonyms for Fortunate?

• adj.

  • adverse
  • allergic to
  ,
  • dis advantageous
  ,
  • dis-advantageous
  ,
  • down on
  ,
  • down side
  ,
  • have no use for
  ,
  • in opportune
  ,
  • in-opportune
  ,
  • more oppugning
  ,
  • most opposed
  ,
  • most opposite
  ,
  • most oppugning
  ,
  • un friendlier
  ,
  • un friendliest
  ,
  • un friendly
  ,
  • un propitious
  ,
  • un willing
  ,
  • un-friendlier
  ,
  • un-friendliest
  ,
  • un-friendly
  ,
  • un-willing
  .
  • all
  • unfortunate
  .
  • bad
  • beastlier
  ,
  • beastliest
  ,
  • bottom out
  ,
  • cruddier
  ,
  • cruddiest
  ,
  • cruddy
  ,
  • diddlier
  ,
  • diddliest
  ,
  • dis satisfactory
  ,
  • dis-satisfactory
  ,
  • godawful
  ,
  • grodier
  ,
  • grody
  ,
  • in adequate
  ,
  • in correct
  ,
  • in-adequate
  ,
  • junkier
  ,
  • junkiest
  ,
  • more downer
  ,
  • more garbage
  ,
  • most downer
  ,
  • most garbage
  ,
  • most godawful
  ,
  • not good
  ,
  • pitser
  ,
  • pitsest
  ,
  • sub standard
  ,
  • sub-standard
  ,
  • the pits
  ,
  • un acceptable
  ,
  • un satisfactory
  ,
  • un-acceptable
  ,
  • un-satisfactory
  .
  • bad, horrible
  • terrible
  .
  • baneful
  • malefic
  ,
  • more evil
  ,
  • more malefic
  ,
  • more pestilent
  ,
  • most malefic
  ,
  • venomous
  ,
  • wicked
  .
  • calamitous
  • more blighting
  ,
  • most blighting
  ,
  • ruinous
  .
  • cataclysmic
  • catastrophal
  ,
  • more catastrophal
  ,
  • most catastrophal
  .
  • catastrophic, very bad
  • tragic
  .
  • causing devastation
  • devastating
  .
  • cursed
  • luckless
  .
  • deadly
  • fateful
  .
  • deadly, lethal
  • fatal
  .
  • deplorable
  • dis graceful
  ,
  • dis honorable
  ,
  • dis reputable
  ,
  • dis-graceful
  ,
  • dis-honorable
  ,
  • dis-reputable
  ,
  • in tolerable
  ,
  • in-tolerable
  ,
  • more horrifying
  ,
  • most horrifying
  ,
  • over whelming
  ,
  • over-whelming
  ,
  • re prehensible
  ,
  • re-prehensible
  ,
  • un bearable
  .
  • depressed
  • bummed out
  ,
  • cast down
  ,
  • cast-down
  ,
  • castdown
  ,
  • de pressed
  ,
  • de stroyed
  ,
  • de-pressed
  ,
  • de-stroyed
  ,
  • down and out
  ,
  • down dumps
  ,
  • down in the dumps
  ,
  • down mouth
  ,
  • down out
  ,
  • down the dumps
  ,
  • down the mouth
  ,
  • in blue funk
  ,
  • in dumps
  ,
  • in pain
  ,
  • in pits
  ,
  • in the pits
  ,
  • in the toilet
  ,
  • in toilet
  ,
  • low down
  ,
  • low spirited
  ,
  • low-down
  ,
  • lowdown
  ,
  • lowspirited
  ,
  • more cast down
  ,
  • more cast-down
  ,
  • more castdown
  ,
  • more dragged
  ,
  • more hurting
  ,
  • more low down
  ,
  • more low-down
  ,
  • more lowdown
  ,
  • more ripped
  ,
  • most cast down
  ,
  • most cast-down
  ,
  • most castdown
  ,
  • most dragged
  ,
  • most lowdown
  ,
  • most ripped
  ,
  • on a downer
  ,
  • on downer
  ,
  • torn up
  .
  • destitute, shabby
  • miserable
  .
  • destructive
  • Eradicative
  ,
  • Extirpative
  ,
  • Wrackful
  ,
  • Wreckful
  ,
  • cataclysmic
  ,
  • catastrophic
  ,
  • fellest
  ,
  • more annihilative
  ,
  • more eradicative
  ,
  • more extirpative
  ,
  • more lethiferous
  ,
  • more wrackful
  ,
  • most annihilative
  ,
  • most eradicative
  ,
  • most extirpative
  ,
  • most lethiferous
  ,
  • most wrackful
  ,
  • most wreckful
  .
  • detrimental, devastating
  • disastrous
  .
  • devastating
  • de solating
  ,
  • de-solating
  ,
  • more annihilating
  ,
  • more desolating
  ,
  • more mortifying
  ,
  • most annihilating
  ,
  • most desolating
  .
  • dire
  • de pressing
  ,
  • de-pressing
  ,
  • more oppressing
  ,
  • more scowling
  ,
  • most oppressing
  ,
  • most scowling
  ,
  • re doubtable
  ,
  • re-doubtable
  .
  • disappointing
  • heartbreaking
  .
  • disastrous
  • ill fated
  ,
  • ill starred
  ,
  • ill-starred
  ,
  • illfated
  ,
  • illstarred
  .
  • disastrous; tragic
  • calamitous
  .
  • discouraged
  • depressed
  .
  • fatal
  • Mortiferous
  ,
  • in curable
  ,
  • in evitable
  ,
  • in-curable
  ,
  • in-evitable
  ,
  • more mortiferous
  ,
  • most killing
  ,
  • most mortiferous
  .
  • grievous
  • dis quieting
  ,
  • dis-quieting
  ,
  • heart rending
  ,
  • heart-rending
  ,
  • more afflicting
  ,
  • more heart rending
  ,
  • more heart-rending
  ,
  • more wounding
  ,
  • most heart rending
  ,
  • most heart-rending
  ,
  • most wounding
  ,
  • up setting
  ,
  • up-setting
  .
  • hapless
  • behind eightball
  ,
  • behind the eightball
  ,
  • hexed
  ,
  • in-felicitous
  ,
  • jinxed
  ,
  • jonah
  ,
  • loser
  ,
  • more hexed
  ,
  • more jinxed
  ,
  • more jonah
  ,
  • more loser
  ,
  • more snakebit
  ,
  • more voodooed
  ,
  • most hexed
  ,
  • most jinxed
  ,
  • most jonah
  ,
  • most loser
  ,
  • most snakebit
  ,
  • most voodooed
  ,
  • poor fish
  ,
  • snakebit
  ,
  • star crossed
  ,
  • starcrossed
  ,
  • voodooed
  .
  • harmful
  • more corroding
  ,
  • more crippling
  ,
  • more harassing
  ,
  • more undermining
  ,
  • most corroding
  ,
  • most crippling
  ,
  • most harassing
  ,
  • most undermining
  ,
  • un healthier
  ,
  • un healthiest
  ,
  • un healthy
  ,
  • un safe
  ,
  • un safer
  ,
  • un safest
  ,
  • un-healthiest
  ,
  • un-healthy
  ,
  • un-safe
  ,
  • un-safer
  ,
  • un-safest
  ,
  • un-wholesome
  ,
  • under mining
  ,
  • under-mining
  .
  • having good luck
  • adverse
  ,
  • destitute
  ,
  • disadvantageous
  ,
  • failing
  ,
  • hopeless
  ,
  • lacking
  ,
  • losing
  ,
  • needy
  ,
  • poor
  ,
  • sad
  ,
  • unhappy
  ,
  • unlucky
  ,
  • unprofitable
  ,
  • unsuccessful
  ,
  • untoward
  ,
  • upset
  ,
  • wanting
  .
  • horrendous
  • horrifyin
  ,
  • more horrifyin
  ,
  • most horrifyin
  .
  • in bad shape; poor
  • pitiful
  .
  • inauspicious
  • fore boding
  ,
  • fore-boding
  ,
  • ill boding
  ,
  • ill omened
  ,
  • ill-omened
  ,
  • illboding
  ,
  • illomened
  ,
  • in auspicious
  ,
  • in-auspicious
  ,
  • inauspicious
  ,
  • more foreboding
  ,
  • more ill omened
  ,
  • more ill-omened
  ,
  • more illomened
  ,
  • more unpromising
  ,
  • most foreboding
  ,
  • most ill omened
  ,
  • most ill-omened
  ,
  • most illomened
  ,
  • most unpromising
  ,
  • un promising
  ,
  • un timelier
  ,
  • un timeliest
  ,
  • un timely
  ,
  • un-promising
  ,
  • un-timelier
  ,
  • un-timeliest
  ,
  • un-timely
  ,
  • unpromising
  .
  • injurious, devastating
  • destructive
  .
  • injurious, hurtful
  • harmful
  .
  • lamentable
  • god awful
  ,
  • god-awful
  ,
  • more god awful
  ,
  • more god-awful
  ,
  • most god awful
  ,
  • most god-awful
  ,
  • most hurting
  .
  • miserable
  • de testable
  ,
  • de-testable
  ,
  • poverty stricken
  ,
  • povertystricken
  ,
  • scurvier
  ,
  • scurviest
  ,
  • scurvy
  .
  • noun
  • Woful
  ,
  • anticipated
  ,
  • black
  ,
  • broken
  ,
  • crushed
  ,
  • curst
  ,
  • deliberate
  ,
  • downtrodden
  ,
  • expected
  ,
  • fallen
  ,
  • foreseen
  ,
  • inconvenient
  ,
  • inopportune
  ,
  • intentional
  ,
  • planned
  ,
  • too bad
  ,
  • unseasonable
  ,
  • untimely
  .
  • pitiful
  • dis tressed
  ,
  • dis-tressed
  ,
  • in significant
  ,
  • more arousing
  ,
  • more suffering
  ,
  • most arousing
  .
  • poor
  • Beggared
  ,
  • Commiserable
  ,
  • Fortuneless
  ,
  • behind eight ball
  ,
  • dirt poor
  ,
  • empty handed
  ,
  • emptyhanded
  ,
  • flat broke
  ,
  • in complete
  ,
  • in disposed
  ,
  • in fertile
  ,
  • in firm
  ,
  • in firmer
  ,
  • in firmest
  ,
  • in need
  ,
  • in solvent
  ,
  • in want
  ,
  • in-complete
  ,
  • in-disposed
  ,
  • in-fertile
  ,
  • in-firmer
  ,
  • in-firmest
  ,
  • in-solvent
  ,
  • in-sufficient
  ,
  • low grade
  ,
  • lowgrade
  ,
  • moneyless
  ,
  • more beggared
  ,
  • more commiserable
  ,
  • more dwarfed
  ,
  • more empty handed
  ,
  • more emptyhanded
  ,
  • more fortuneless
  ,
  • more moneyless
  ,
  • more pauperized
  ,
  • more pinched
  ,
  • more subnormal
  ,
  • more subpar
  ,
  • more unprosperous
  ,
  • most beggared
  ,
  • most commiserable
  ,
  • most dwarfed
  ,
  • most empty handed
  ,
  • most empty-handed
  ,
  • most emptyhanded
  ,
  • most fortuneless
  ,
  • most moneyless
  ,
  • most niggardly
  ,
  • most pauperized
  ,
  • most pinched
  ,
  • most subpar
  ,
  • most unprosperous
  ,
  • niggardly
  ,
  • poorer
  ,
  • stone broke
  ,
  • sub normal
  ,
  • sub-normal
  ,
  • subpar
  ,
  • truly needy
  ,
  • un fruitful
  ,
  • un productive
  ,
  • un prosperous
  ,
  • un-fruitful
  ,
  • un-productive
  ,
  • under privileged
  ,
  • under-privileged
  ,
  • unprosperous
  .
  • poor quality
  • bad
  .
  • regrettable
  • dis appointing
  ,
  • dis-appointing
  ,
  • illadvised
  .
  • ruinous
  • more depleting
  ,
  • more impoverishing
  ,
  • more shattering
  ,
  • most depleting
  ,
  • most impoverishing
  ,
  • most shattering
  .
  • ruinous, injurious
  • baneful
  .
  • sad
  • be reaved
  ,
  • be-reaved
  ,
  • dis composing
  ,
  • dis heartening
  ,
  • dis-composing
  ,
  • dis-heartening
  ,
  • down in dumps
  ,
  • down in mouth
  ,
  • grief stricken
  ,
  • griefstricken
  ,
  • in doldrums
  ,
  • more bereaved
  ,
  • more dejecting
  ,
  • more discomposing
  ,
  • more disheartening
  ,
  • more saddening
  ,
  • most bereaved
  ,
  • most dejecting
  ,
  • most discomposing
  ,
  • most disheartening
  ,
  • most saddening
  ,
  • out sorts
  ,
  • sick at heart
  ,
  • sick heart
  ,
  • tearful
  ,
  • tearjerking
  .
  • severe, painful; serious
  • grievous
  .
  • terrible
  • awe inspiring
  ,
  • aweinspiring
  ,
  • in convenient
  ,
  • in-convenient
  ,
  • more dreaded
  ,
  • more petrifying
  ,
  • more unnerving
  ,
  • most dreaded
  ,
  • most unnerving
  ,
  • un nerving
  ,
  • un pleasant
  ,
  • un welcome
  ,
  • un-nerving
  ,
  • un-pleasant
  .
  • terrible, sad
  • woeful
  .
  • tragic
  • anguished
  ,
  • de solate
  ,
  • de-solate
  ,
  • more anguished
  ,
  • most anguished
  ,
  • most crushing
  .
  • unfavorable
  • Discommodious
  ,
  • dis commodious
  ,
  • dis-commodious
  ,
  • in advisable
  ,
  • in expedient
  ,
  • in-advisable
  ,
  • in-expedient
  ,
  • most discommodious
  ,
  • un favorable
  ,
  • un seasonable
  ,
  • un seemlier
  ,
  • un seemliest
  ,
  • un seemly
  ,
  • un suited
  ,
  • un-favorable
  ,
  • un-fit
  ,
  • un-seasonable
  ,
  • un-seemlier
  ,
  • un-seemliest
  ,
  • un-suited
  .
  • unfortunate
  • hapless
  ,
  • in a bad way
  ,
  • in appropriate
  ,
  • in bad way
  ,
  • in-appropriate
  ,
  • more shattered
  ,
  • most shattered
  ,
  • out luck
  ,
  • out of luck
  ,
  • un becoming
  ,
  • un fortunate
  ,
  • un successful
  ,
  • un suitable
  ,
  • un-becoming
  ,
  • un-fortunate
  ,
  • un-prosperous
  ,
  • un-successful
  ,
  • un-suitable
  .
  • unfortunate, shameful
  • deplorable
  .
  • unfortunate, wrong
  • regrettable
  .
  • unhappy
  • heavy hearted
  ,
  • let-down
  ,
  • long faced
  ,
  • long-faced
  ,
  • longfaced
  ,
  • mirthless
  ,
  • mis fortunate
  ,
  • mis-fortunate
  ,
  • misfortunate
  ,
  • more let down
  ,
  • more let-down
  ,
  • more long faced
  ,
  • more long-faced
  ,
  • more longfaced
  ,
  • more mirthless
  ,
  • more misfortunate
  ,
  • more saddened
  ,
  • most let down
  ,
  • most let-down
  ,
  • most letdown
  ,
  • most long-faced
  ,
  • most longfaced
  ,
  • most mirthless
  ,
  • most misfortunate
  ,
  • un happier
  ,
  • un happiest
  ,
  • un happy
  ,
  • un-happier
  ,
  • un-happiest
  ,
  • un-happy
  .
  • unlucky
  • bad break
  ,
  • down luck
  ,
  • down on luck
  ,
  • hard luck
  ,
  • tough luck
  ,
  • un luckier
  ,
  • un luckiest
  ,
  • un lucky
  ,
  • un-luckier
  ,
  • un-luckiest
  ,
  • un-lucky
  .
  • untoward
  • Unpliable
  ,
  • in docile
  ,
  • in tractable
  ,
  • in-docile
  ,
  • in-tractable
  ,
  • un disciplined
  ,
  • un manageable
  ,
  • un pliable
  ,
  • un pliablest
  ,
  • un yielding
  ,
  • un-governable
  ,
  • un-manageable
  ,
  • un-pliable
  ,
  • un-pliabler
  ,
  • un-pliablest
  ,
  • un-yielding
  ,
  • unpliabler
  ,
  • unpliablest
  .
  • upsetting
  • distressing
  .
  • upsetting, miserable
  • lamentable
  .
  • urgent; crucial
  • dire
  .
  • very bad
  • unfavorable
  .
  • woeful
  • more agonized
  ,
  • more grieving
  ,
  • more racked
  ,
  • more tortured
  ,
  • most agonized
  ,
  • most grieving
  ,
  • most racked
  ,
  • most tortured
  .

• imp. & p. p.

  • noun
  • dispossessed
  .

• Other relevant words:

• cursed
.

Usage examples for Fortunate

Famous quotes with Fortunate

• Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away.

  Aeschylus
• We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity.

  Aeschylus
• We are very fortunate to be recognized here in such an extraordinary manner for work that we enjoy.

  Sidney Altman
• I was lucky enough to be the lady that was asked to be Maria in the Sound Of Music, and that film was fortunate enough to be huge hit. The same with Mary Poppins. I got terribly lucky in that respect.

  Julie Andrews
• To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

  Minna Antrim

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