All infelicitous synonyms
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I i adjective infelicitous
- unfortunate — suffering from bad luck: an unfortunate person.
- unfavourable — Unfavourable conditions or circumstances cause problems for you and reduce your chances of success.
adj infelicitous
- adverse — Adverse decisions, conditions, or effects are unfavourable to you.
- afflicted — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
- awkward — An awkward situation is embarrassing and difficult to deal with.
- broken — Broken is the past participle of break.
- burdened — If you are burdened with something, it causes you a lot of worry or hard work.
- calamitous — If you describe an event or situation as calamitous, you mean it is very unfortunate or serious.
- cursed — If you are cursed with something, you are very unlucky in having it.
- damaging — causing or capable of causing damages; harmful; injurious.
- deplorable — If you say that something is deplorable, you think that it is very bad and unacceptable.
- desperate — If you are desperate, you are in such a bad situation that you are willing to try anything to change it.
- destitute — Someone who is destitute has no money or possessions.
- disastrous — causing great distress or injury; ruinous; very unfortunate; calamitous: The rain and cold proved disastrous to his health.
- doomed — fate or destiny, especially adverse fate; unavoidable ill fortune: In exile and poverty, he met his doom.
- forsaken — past participle of forsake.
- hapless — unlucky; luckless; unfortunate.
- hopeless — providing no hope; beyond optimism or hope; desperate: a hopeless case of cancer.
- ill-fated — destined, as though by fate, to an unhappy or unfortunate end: an ill-fated voyage.
- inappropriate — not appropriate; not proper or suitable: an inappropriate dress for the occasion.
- inept — without skill or aptitude for a particular task or assignment; maladroit: He is inept at mechanical tasks. She is inept at dealing with people.
- inopportune — not opportune; inappropriate; inconvenient; untimely or unseasonable: an inopportune visit.
- lamentable — that is to be lamented; regrettable; unfortunate: a lamentable decision.
- luckless — having no luck; unfortunate; hapless; ill-fated; turning out or ending disastrously: a luckless venture that ruined many of the investors.
- pained — hurt; injured.
- poor — having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
- regrettable — causing or deserving regret; unfortunate; deplorable.
- ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- ruinous — bringing or tending to bring ruin; destructive; disastrous: a ruinous war.
- star-crossed — thwarted or opposed by the stars; ill-fated: star-crossed lovers.
- stricken — a past participle of strike.
- troubled — to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- unbecoming — detracting from one's appearance, character, or reputation; unattractive or unseemly: an unbecoming hat; unbecoming language.
- unfavorable — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.
- unhappy — sad; miserable; wretched: Why is she so unhappy?
- unpropitious — presenting favorable conditions; favorable: propitious weather.
- unsuccessful — not achieving or not attended with success: an unsuccessful person; an unsuccessful venture.
- unsuitable — not suitable; inappropriate; unfitting; unbecoming.
- untoward — unfavorable or unfortunate: Untoward circumstances forced him into bankruptcy.
- wretched — very unfortunate in condition or circumstances; miserable; pitiable.
- ill-starred — doomed to misfortune or disaster; ill-fated; unlucky: an ill-starred enterprise.
- in a bad way — not good in any manner or degree.
- out of luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- shattered — to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- unprosperous — having or characterized by financial success or good fortune; flourishing; successful: a prosperous business.