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单词 infortunate
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infortunateadj.n.

Brit. /ɪnˈfɔːtʃn̩ət/, /ɪnˈfɔːtʃ(ə)nət/, /ɪnˈfɔːtjᵿnət/, U.S. /ᵻnˈfɔrtʃ(ə)nət/
Forms: Middle English inffortunat, Middle English infortunatte, Middle English–1600s infortunat, Middle English–1700s 1900s– infortunate.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin infortūnātus.
Etymology: < classical Latin infortūnātus unfortunate < in- in- prefix4 + fortūnātus fortunate adj. Compare Middle French, French infortuné (c1366), Catalan infortunat (1490), Spanish infortunado (13th cent.), Portuguese infortunado (15th cent.), Italian infortunato (1313). Compare infortuned adj., and later unfortunate adj.
A. adj.
1. Subject to or marked by misfortune, unlucky; = unfortunate adj. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective]
unseelyOE
ungraciousa1387
infortunatec1390
unhappy1390
haplessa1400
mischancefula1400
unfortunedc1403
infortuneda1413
maleurousa1460
infortunable?a1475
mal-infortunedc1475
unselc1480
mischanced1488
misadventurousa1500
unhap1509
misfortunate1510
mischancya1522
unuredc1525
maleureda1529
unlucky1530
unfortunate1548
luckless1563
unluckly1564
unfortunable1567
untoward1570
unable?1572
sinister1576
unsonsy1578
disaster1584
disastereda1586
disastrous1586
unweirdedc1590
wanhappy?1590
misbefallen1591
fortuneless1596
infelicious1598
misadventured1599
improsperous1602
untoward1632
unhandsome1640
ill-fated1715
donsie?1719
swarthy1756
infelicitous1835
bad luck1872
stiff1919
spooked1937
jinxed1972
c1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Bodl. 902) viii. l. 3000* Yet was he nought infortunate.
a1450 Partonope of Blois (Univ. Coll. Oxf.) (1912) l. 6063 The day in-fortunate that I was bore.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxixv O infortunate brother, for whose lyfe not one creatoure woulde make intercession.
1592 W. Harrowden Let. 18 Feb. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. IV. 110 Infortunatest peere of Parliament for pouertie that euer was.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxvi. 98 We eleven..seeing the infortunate success of our companions, could do nothing but weep and lament.
1676 A. Marvell Mr. Smirke sig. B2v He took up an unfortunate resolution that he would be Witty. Infortunate, I say, and no less criminal.
1701 tr. M. le Vassor Hist. Reign Lewis XIII III. x. 492 The Calumnies wherewith Luines and Monpouillon had blackened this imprudent and infortunate Princess in the mind of her Son.
1948 Folklore Stud. 7 16 The hat was said to keep away evils: in fact nothing infortunate happened.
2.
a. Astrology. Of a planet, etc.: exercising a malign influence, malevolent. Now rare.
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the world > the universe > planet > position of planet > aspect > [adjective] > unfortunate
infortunatec1400
tortuous1594
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §4. 18 Yit sein thise Astrolog[i]ens, that the assendent & eke the lord of the assendent, may be shapen for to be fortunat or infortunat.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 204 Infortunat Ascendent tortuous Of which the lord is helplees falle allas Out of his angle in to the derkest hous.
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. 3499 (MED) Sum aspect cam from heuene doun, Infortunat, froward and ful off rage, Which ageyn kynde deyned this mariage.
1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things ii. 34 If both..the Sun and Moone be in the sixt house Infortunate, they that be then borne, without doubt wyll be blinde.
1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction vii. ii. 305 Gods Word..before in this age of ours was (like an infortunate Planet) predominant ouer the Horoscope of our natiuities.
1671 W. Salmon Synopsis Medicinæ i. xxvii. 55 An infortunate Planet in the Ascendent..always afflicts the Head.
1702 W. Andrews News from Stars sig. C2 When the Moon shall be weakly posited at a Solar Ingress, and concerned in an ill Aspect with an infortunate Planet.
1988 J. D. North Chaucer's Universe 479 This crucial point escaped me when writing..[the article], and in there deriving a date in 1391 I assumed a current infortunate aspect between Venus and Saturn.
b. Bringing or presaging misfortune; ominous, inauspicious. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective] > causing or bringing misfortune
unwealful1412
unluckful1542
infortunate1548
unluckly1564
unluckya1586
unfortunating1647
hoodoo1882
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective] > inauspicious
perilousc1390
unlucky1519
unchancy1533
unhappy1533
infortunate1548
sinistrous?c1550
luckless1584
dismal1588
ominous1589
fatal1590
bad-bodinga1592
disastrous1598
inauspicious1599
black1604
naught1620
inauspicate1632
infaustous1656
infaust1658
ill-omened1685
black boding1743
wanchancy1768
oracular1820
inominous1832
widdershins1926
1548 Hall's Vnion: Richard III f. liij He..sore feared that it shoulde bee a pronosticacion or prodygall sygne of some infortunate plague afterward to succede.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Infortunate dayes to begyn any busynes.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. xviii. 177 When they have had an infortunate dream.
1652 G. Wharton tr. J. Rothmann Chiromancy in Wks. (1683) 555 When there appear Infortunate Signs in the First and Second Joynt, they mark out a Thief, and a very deceitful Person.
1784 E. Sibly New & Compl. Illustr. Astrol. (new ed.) ii. 296 If the infortunate signs signify the bottom or lower part of the ship, it presages drowning by means of some dangerous leak.
B. n.
1. An unlucky person; = unfortunate n. 1. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > unfortunate person
infortunate?a1439
Jonah1612
unfortunate1683
misfortunera1774
misadventurer1886
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. l. 3030 Sum onworthi, poore infortunat, That neuer were likli to rise to hih estat.
c1525 W. Walter tr. G. Boccaccio Tytus & Gesyppus sig. C.ivv Truely my selfe..Slewe this man whiche was my companyon This infortunate slepynge there.
1675 tr. F. Alcafarado Discov. Isle Madera 13 Three dayes was death in killing so amiable an infortunate, she expiring with all manner of contrition and repentance.
1743 W. Moraley (title) The infortunate: or, the voyage and adventures of William Moraley.
1793 T. Thoughtless Fugitive of Folly p. xi Lucky Casualties may save one in an Hundred, but this disproportionate Majority of Infortunates, will generally be found, on Investigation of the Fact.
2. Astrology. An infortunate planet, star, etc.; = infortune n. 2. rare. Now historical.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > causing or bringing misfortune > one who or that which
foota1225
woea1300
infortunec1405
infortunate1558
jettatura1822
bad medicine1857
hoodoo1882
voodoo1902
jinx1911
mock1911
mocker1923
kiss of death1948
1558 W. Bullein Govt. Healthe f. xlii There be certain stars called infortunates, in their exaltacion, whose influence bringeth corruption to creatures.
1984 G. C. Noonan Classical Sci. Astrol. v. 131 A planet is at the height of its power when the following conditions are present:..Passing above the infortunates.

Derivatives

infortunateness n. Obsolete the quality of being unfortunate, unluckiness; (also) misfortune.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [noun] > misfortune or ill-luck > quality or condition of
infortunacya1500
unluckiness1556
unfortunateness1561
infortunateness1587
lucklessness1834
hoodooism1966
1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Eng. (new ed.) vii. viii. 174/1 (heading) in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I The death and buriall of Egelred, his wiues.., his infortunatenesse.
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse xiv. 76 When we dreame of Eagles flying over our heade, it portends infortunatenes.
1644 T. Juxon Jrnl. 9 Nov. (1999) (modernized text) 65 Though Waller were for fighting and Balfour not, they endeavour to render him the cause of it and ascribe it to his infortunateness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

infortunatev.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymons: Latin infortunat-, infortunare.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin infortunat-, past participial stem (see -ate suffix3) of infortunare to make unfortunate, bring misfortune upon (1267 in a British source) < classical Latin in- in- prefix4 + fortūnāre fortunate v.; compare classical Latin infortūnātus infortunate adj. Compare earlier infortune v.
Astrology. Obsolete.
transitive. To subject (a person) to or cause (a planet) to be a malevolent influence; to render unfortunate. Also intransitive.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > have befallen as a misfortune to [verb (transitive)] > render unfortunate
infortunate1571
unfortunate1653
hoodoo1868
jonah1887
jinx1917
1571 T. Hill Contempl. Mankinde xvii. f. 52 At the great coniunction in Cancer, lost this man his gouernement... Thus aboue his stocke and kindred aduanced, was at that time infortunated, and throwne into prison.
1579 T. Lupton Thousand Notable Things i. 17 In whose Natiuitie Saturne or Mars is in the syxt house, or in the twelfth house infortunating the Lord of the sixt house.
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 101v By his dreery influence, [Saturn] infortunateth any birth that shal then casually befall.
1651 N. Culpeper Astrol. Judgm. Dis. (1658) 110 Venus Lady of the sixth and infortunated by Mars, gives suspitions enough of the French pox.
1790 E. Sibly New & Compl. Illustr. Astrol. (new ed.) i. 18 Some heavenly influence that..fortunateth or infortunateth.
1896 J. Story Simmonite's Horary Astrol. (ed. 6) 97 If he be infortunated in the 12th,..then he is discontented.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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