Dictionary entry

Unfortunately

Pronunciation: /ʌnˈfɔːtʃ(ə)nətli/

Pronunciation

/ʌnˈfɔːtʃ(ə)nətli/

Myanmar Meaning

(adv) ကံဆိုးချင်တော့

Definition

unfortunate /ʌn'fↄ:tʃǝnǝt / adj ၁။ ကံမေကာင္းေသာ။ ကံေခေသာ။ an unfortunate start to the trip ❍ I was unfortunate enough to lose my keys. ၂။ မသင့္ေသာ။ အေၾကာင္းမလွေသာ။ ဆိုးေသာ။ a most unfortunate choice of words ❍ It is unfortunate that you missed the meeting. n (esp pl ) ( dated or rhet ) ကံေခသူ။ ကံမေကာင္းသူ။ ကံဆိုးသူ။ အေၾကာင္းမလွသူ။ Unlike these unfortunates, I do have a job. ❏ unfortunately adv ~ (for sb) အေၾကာင္းအေပါင္းမသင့္၍။ ကံဆိုးခ်င္ေတာ့။ ဝမ္းနည္းဖြယ္ရာ။ I can't come, unfortunately. ❍ Unfortunately for him, he was proved wrong. ❍ The notice is most unfortunately phrased.

Examples

  1. The unfortunate victims of the pension fund fraud are unlikely to get their money back.
  2. This whole episode has been very unfortunate.
  3. [it is unfortunate that] : It’s unfortunate that some politicians have condemned the film without even seeing it.
  4. He had an unfortunate habit of getting drunk and behaving badly at parties.