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单词 unluckily
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unluckilyadv.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈlʌkᵻli/, U.S. /ˌənˈləkəli/
Forms: see un- prefix1 and luckily adv.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, luckily adv.
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + luckily adv., after unlucky adj. Compare slightly later unluckly adv.Compare Old Icelandic úlukkuliga . Forms with medial -e- (e.g. unluckely , frequent in the 16th cent.) could alternatively be interpreted as reflecting forms of luck n. with final -e , and hence belong instead at unluckly adv.
1.
a. As a result of bad luck or misfortune; unfortunately. Also in unluckily for ——, specifying the person experiencing the misfortune.Chiefly used parenthetically or as a sentence adverb.
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the world > action or operation > adversity > [adverb] > wretchedly or miserably
un-i-sellyOE
wretchedlyc1340
unhappily1390
miserably?a1425
lodderlyc1425
unluckily1530
miscreantly1744
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
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 840/1 Onluckely, de grant malheur.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Inauspicaid, vnluckyly.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ii. sig. Kk4 Blind Fortune hating sharpe-sighted inuentions, made them vnluckily to be killed.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 92 Darab..most unluckily denyes, and goes on to levy men to support the rebellion.
1673 R. Leigh Transproser Rehears'd 128 Unluckily..there has happen'd a prodigious conjunction.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield II. ix. 130 Unluckily all our money had been laid out..in provisions.
1799 Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 5 123 Unluckily, all the young plants died before I reached Bengal.
1825 J. Neal Brother Jonathan III. 404 Unluckily for him, the order for pursuit was given too early.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xvii. 74 Of the state of things..we unluckily hear nothing.
1910 Times 27 Aug. 8/1 She has unluckily invested the greater part of her savings in a small freehold house.
1961 Amer. Jrnl. Nursing 61 86/2 Unluckily, this valuable custom was later discontinued.
2007 D. Leavitt Indian Clerk ix. iii. 442 Unluckily for me, I'm afraid of pain.
b. With verbs of happening, resulting, etc.: in an unfortunate manner; with an undesirable outcome. Now archaic.
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1537 T. Paynell tr. Erasmus Comparation Vyrgin & Martyr f. 34v The exaumples of vyrgins, the whose chaunce was mooste vnluckely and vnwelthily to be bestowed & maried.
1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre i. lxii. sig. D.iiiv Lest other his affaiers (the more vnluckelye for suche thynges) do chaunce, & God be enuyfull to vs aswell as man.
?1548 W. Lynne tr. M. Luther Fruteful Predication conc. Matrimony in tr. Vertuous Scholehous Vngracious Women sig. Hviijv Noman..feareth that it [sc. matrimony] myght succede vnluckely.
1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iv. 1 Thinges haue fallen out..vnluckily . View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iii. ii. 47 How vnluckily it hapned, that [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1679 tr. M.-M. de La Fayette Princess of Cleves iv. 202 Though it fell out unluckily for Monsieur de Cleve, he had not the Conducting Madam Elizabeth.
1711 J. Swift Corr. 8 Mar. (1963) I. 215 Nothing could happen so unluckily..as Mr. Harley's Death.
1758 B. Plaisted Jrnl. Calcutta to Busserah (ed. 2) 100 It unluckily happened that this Affair was brought upon the Carpet in the Ramazan or Mahommedan Lent.
1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci v. i. 79 It has turned out unluckily.
1883 Sat. Rev. 10 Nov. 590/1 It unluckily happened that the last Parliamentary election was largely affected by foreign politics.
1936 F. R. Leavis Revaluation iv. 101 The poetic tradition developed unluckily.
2014 R. MacKenzie tr. C.-L. de S. de Montesquieu Persian Lett. cli. 235 I do not know why, but everything is turning out unluckily.
2. Unsuccessfully; poorly; (also) inadvisedly, infelicitously. Obsolete.
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the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > [adverb]
unhappily1533
unluckily?1544
unprosperously1564
improsperously1605
unsuccessfully1649
successlessly1652
insuccessively1657
unsuccessively1707
unkindly1743
?1544 E. Allen tr. A. Alesius Auctorite Word of God sig. Aiiijv Certen of my frindes did moue me to take in hand to practise, which thing I did I trust not vnluckyly.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xviii. sig. L7 Vrania, whom a rich knight..had vnluckely defended.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 305 A certain Painter,..who painted cockes most unluckily, gave his boy great charge, to chase the true cockes away from his picture.
1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. xx. sig. Ii2 Many of those young Ladies..are so unluckily Bred,..that [etc.].
1711 Ld. Shaftesbury Characteristicks II. ii. 192 Consider..how it [sc. our Picture] will appear, especially in the Light you have unluckily chosen to set it.
1792 Phœnix 14 Nov. 320 The lucky escape of the head, From a flint so unluckily thrown.
1810 Covent Garden Jrnl. 725 Look at his whole conduct throughout; cunningly imagined and cautiously designed, but unluckily executed, or rather marred.
1886 R. J. Shee tr. R. Gneist Eng. Parl. iv. 187 Affairs abroad, so unluckily conducted, were further traversed by still more urgent affairs at home.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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