unfortunatelyadv.
/ʌnˈfɔːtʃn̩ətli/, /ʌnˈfɔːtʃ(ə)nətli/, /ʌnˈfɔːtjᵿnətli/, U.S. /ˌənˈfɔrtʃ(ə)nətli/ a. In an unfortunate manner; unhappily, unluckily.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adverb]
evil971
unsellyc1275
chancefully1303
wrother-heala1325
badlyc1325
illc1325
ungraciouslyc1330
unhappilyc1374
evil haila1400
infortunately1442
shame to saya1450
ill haila1500
unluckily1530
unfortunately1548
unluckly1573
bad1575
haplessly1582
disasterly1593
lucklessly1596
untowardly1649
misfortunatelya1686
askew1858
1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Infœliciter, vnhappily, vnfortunately.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. cclxxxijv The death of kinge Fraunces chaunced vnfortunately for studentes.
1621 M. Wroth Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania 536 Shee was..the vnfortunateliest married, and vnhappiest wife this Countrey had.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan 390 Sidney Godolphin, who..was unfortunately slain in the..late Civill warre.
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Sigismonda & Guiscardo in Fables 146 She..Ev'n kept her Count'nance, when the Lid remov'd, Disclos'd the Heart, unfortunately lov'd.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 204. ⁋4 We use Words of Respect sometimes very unfortunately.
1936 R. Lehmann Weather in Streets i. ii. 36 Etty had not married—not even unfortunately.
b. In parenthetic or detached use.
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1707 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected 37 He might unfortunately have grown up to be a Pedant.
1779 Mirror No. 10 Unfortunately for us, we found with our friend a number of his jovial companions.
1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xviii. 472 Unfortunately this evil increases with the heat.
1874 J. Geikie Great Ice Age xiv. 183 These relics, unfortunately, have almost invariably been lost or mislaid.
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