unfortunate
/ʌnˈfɔːtʃ(ə)nət/
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American sound/ʌnˈfɔːtʃ(ə)nət/
ʌnˈfɔːtʃənət
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- 2nd syllable stress
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- Aw vowel
- Ending
- Final e often stays silent
ʌn - ˈfɔːtʃənət -> unfortunate
Myanmar meaning
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unfortunate /ʌn'fↄ:tʃǝnǝt / adj
၁။ ကံမကောင်းသော။ ကံခေသော။ an unfortunate start to the trip ❍ I was unfortunate enough to lose my keys.
၂။ မသင့်သော။ အကြောင်းမလှသော။ ဆိုးသော။ a most unfortunate choice of words ❍ It is unfortunate that you missed the meeting.
n (esp pl ) (dated or rhet ) ကံခေသူ။ ကံမကောင်းသူ။ ကံဆိုးသူ။ အကြောင်းမလှသူ။ Unlike these unfortunates, I do have a job.
❏ unfortunately adv ~ (for sb) အကြောင်းအပေါင်းမသင့်၍။ ကံဆိုးချင်တော့။ ဝမ်းနည်းဖွယ်ရာ။ I can't come, unfortunately. ❍ Unfortunately for him, he was proved wrong. ❍ The notice is most unfortunately phrased.
More examples
- The unfortunate victims of the pension fund fraud are unlikely to get their money back.
- This whole episode has been very unfortunate.
- [it is unfortunate that] : It’s unfortunate that some politicians have condemned the film without even seeing it.
- He had an unfortunate habit of getting drunk and behaving badly at parties.
Synonyms
unlucky, ill-fated, untoward, adverse, inopportune, fateful, regrettable, ill-timed, awkward, disastrous, afflicted, bad, broken, burdened, calamitous, cursed, damaging, deplorable, desperate, destitute, doomed, forsaken, hapless, hopeless, ill-advised, ill-starred, in a bad way, inappropriate, infelicitous, jinxed, lame duck, lamentable, loser, luckless, out of luck, pained, poor, ruined, ruinous, shattered, star-crossed, stricken, tactless, troubled, unbecoming, underdog, unfavorable, unhappy, unpropitious, unprosperous, unsuccessful, unsuitable, untimely, weakling, wretch, wretched
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